TSGL: Son looking for solution.

[The Computer Whisperer]

Most web pages are designed around the 1024x768 standard.

It is likely that this can be corrected by changing the screen resolution
provided his video card isn't some ancient piece of crap (I'm talking 1MB of
onboard memory kinda crap).

If he is unable to change the resolution then it is likely that the Video
Drivers haven't been loaded or the screen does not support resolutions above
800x600.

Justin


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2008/6/17 H Davis <hdavis1 at gmail.com>:

> Alan,
>
> It's not clear to me just what your son's problem is.
>
> Whether you get the scroll bars is determined by your screen resolution
> and how the web designer set up the page. Most web pages will show the
> right scroll bar because the most pages are longer than the screen. If
> the page is designed for a fixed width that is wider than your screen
> setting you will also get the bottom scroll bar. The only way to avoid
> this is to change your screen resolution to be wider than the page in
> pixels (assuming your browser window is maximized).
>
> Changing the text size will not help if the page is a fixed width. The
> text will re-wrap but since the width of the page is fixed by the design
> you'll still get the bottom scroll bar. It's possible that on a short
> page the smaller font size will result in fewer text lines to the point
> that the right scroll bar is no longer needed but this is determined by
> the browser for this particular page.
>
> Many pages use a so called fluid design where the width is specified as
> a percentage of the screen width, commonly 100%; or maybe 90% to show a
> colored background at the edges. These pages will never (as long as the
> designer did it right) show the bottom scroll bar since the browser
> adjusts the page components and wraps the text to accommodate whatever
> screen width it encounters.
>
> There can still be problems however if the page designer is
> inexperienced (ask me how I know this). A common screen width is 1024
> px. If the designer designs a page with a fixed width of 1024 px it
> probably will still show the bottom scroll bar (with only a tiny bit of
> available scrolling). This is because the page is long enough to require
> the right scroll bar which reduces the viewable space by 50 px or so.
> The page at 1024 px is still wider than the available width in the
> browser, 976 px, so the scroll bar is still needed. Different browsers
> handle this problem differently.
>
> Can you expound on the problem a little more if the above isn't related
> to his problem.
>
> H Davis
>
> Baracouder wrote:
> > Hi all, my son has just asked me for advice.
> >
> > When he opens up his browser IE the pages are all displayed with a
> > scroll bar on the side and also the bottom which he does not want. I
> > suggested he change the screen resolution but found out he had tried
> > that. He is going to try reinstalling the graphics driver and get back
> > to me. Have you got a solution to this? Thanks.
> >
> > Regards, Alan.
> >
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