When I add photos to my web pages, I want to ensure that the pages can be viewed in different monitors without the need to scroll horizontally to see an entire picture. If a picture is too wide to display in full in a monitor with a narrow screen, I will reduce the size of the picture to avoid scrolling. Over the past several years, it was easy to see how a page would display in a monitor with a narrow screen. Firefox and IE both had a "web developer toolbar" that permitted a page to be seen on a narrow monitor with just one click. Now the toolbars seem to have disappeared. Is it just my computer, or is Firefox playing games us? Please tell me how I can check the appearance of my pages on a monitor with a narrow screen.

I know I said I would refrain from posting on this list, and I will undoubtedly get blasted for this post as well. But, I just had to add my $0.02 worth on this subject. Neil, your fighting a losing battle. In todays world the only way you could accomplish this is if there is some way to resize images on the fly as pages are downloaded. With people using everything from cell phones to 20+ inch monitors, with resolutions all over the place, you will not be able to get images/pages to show without scrolling sideways. My advice is to set your pages up for a good look at a median size and just let it go. I generally try for a page width of 800 to 900 pixels, if I use a fixed width rather than a percentage, and images in the 600 to 700 range. That seems to give a nice balance. On 05/22/2011 08:28 AM, Neil A. Boyer wrote: > When I add photos to my web pages, I want to ensure that the pages can be > viewed in different monitors without the need to scroll horizontally to see > an entire picture. If a picture is too wide to display in full in a monitor > with a narrow screen, I will reduce the size of the picture to avoid > scrolling. > > > > Over the past several years, it was easy to see how a page would display in > a monitor with a narrow screen. Firefox and IE both had a "web developer > toolbar" that permitted a page to be seen on a narrow monitor with just one > click. Now the toolbars seem to have disappeared. Is it just my computer, > or is Firefox playing games us? Please tell me how I can check the > appearance of my pages on a monitor with a narrow screen. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George Washington _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._

I agree with Billie -- too many screen sizes now and no doubt many more to come. I can't imagine anyone looking at my local history website photos with an cell phone (or whatever) so I make them all about 900px wide. Some of the group photos, where size is important, I will show twice -- on the main page it will be 900 px or less wide and then I provide a link to a full-size version which might be two or three screen sizes wide. See[1]http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cdobie/ashbury.htm for an example. Charlie Dobie. At 11:20 AM 5/22/2011, Billie Walsh wrote: --snip-- Neil, your fighting a losing battle. In todays world the only way you could accomplish this is if there is some way to resize images on the fly as pages are downloaded. With people using everything from cell phones to 20+ inch monitors, with resolutions all over the place, you will not be able to get images/pages to show without scrolling sideways. My advice is to set your pages up for a good look at a median size and just let it go. I generally try for a page width of 800 to 900 pixels, if I use a fixed width rather than a percentage, and images in the 600 to 700 range. That seems to give a nice balance. On 05/22/2011 08:28 AM, Neil A. Boyer wrote: > When I add photos to my web pages, I want to ensure that the pages can be > viewed in different monitors without the need to scroll horizontally to see > an entire picture. If a picture is too wide to display in full in a monitor > with a narrow screen, I will reduce the size of the picture to avoid > scrolling. > > > > Over the past several years, it was easy to see how a page would display in > a monitor with a narrow screen. Firefox and IE both had a "web developer > toolbar" that permitted a page to be seen on a narrow monitor with just one > click. Now the toolbars seem to have disappeared. Is it just my computer, > or is Firefox playing games us? Please tell me how I can check the > appearance of my pages on a monitor with a narrow screen. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George Washington _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - [2]www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1375 / Virus Database: 1509/3653 - Release Date: 05/22/11 Charles Dobie, cdobie@superaje.com References 1. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cdobie/ashbury.htm 2. http://www.avg.com/

> Over the past several years, it was easy to see how a page would display > in > a monitor with a narrow screen. Firefox and IE both had a "web developer > toolbar" that permitted a page to be seen on a narrow monitor with just > one > click. Now the toolbars seem to have disappeared. Is it just my > computer, > or is Firefox playing games us? Please tell me how I can check the > appearance of my pages on a monitor with a narrow screen. http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ for ff http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/ais/toolbar/ for ie Tina F ree Expression Web Toolbar - Expression Web and Web Design Resources http://frontpage-to-expression.com/expression-web-community-toolbar.html Will work in FireFox IE and Safari and Chrome