How Can I make my webpage fill up the browser window?

[chantelle]

Hi,
I sliced and "saved for web" and then made a few changes in Dreamweaver.
The problem is that there is too much white space around the site. It doesnt fill up the browser window. I am assuming that this has something to do with the dimensions that I set in the html?

Can anyone help?

Thank you Much!
Chantelle

 

[Tron]

Need a little more information to help , perhaps a screen shot of you browser window

 

[sfm]

chantelle, to fill a window you will need to set it at 100% rather than the size of pixels. Be careful though that it doesn't blow your image out.
When I do my sites in PS I make them 770 pixels but I have a background colour so that the page fills with that, (as in www.sitedezigns.com my site) or you could create a background pattern to fill the page (as in my clients site www.daintreecloud9.com).
sfm

 

[chantelle]

Thanks for your help.
changing the pixels to 100% works on a couple of my other projects, but not this particular photoshop site, which was made with slices. The site design will not allow me to make a background pattern to fill the page.
I am currently trying to experiment with changing the pixels in Photoshop....

Thanks again

 

[shadow]

Hi Chantelle.

There are a couple of things you can do.

in the DW page properties section (Ctrl-J) there is a spot to set top and left margins set those four boxes to 0 ... then check your body tag and see what changes DW made -- then you can easily hand code them at any time -- it puts the necessary tags for both Exploder and Netscrape.


The second thing is create your slices so one area is "generic" enough it can repeat/ tile
Macromedia has a quicktime video on their site which will walk you through how to make a "flexible" table which will fill your browser window.

Heres the link to the Autostretch tutorial. Hopefully it will give you some ideas

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/tip/005.html

This is kind of hard to find on the Macromedia site, but heres a list of other usefull quicktime tutorials
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/tip/archive.html

hth
stan...