I'm really, really, really, sick of pages displaying wrong. Is there a cure? Help?
 

Here's the deal: I'm utterly sick of reading a column of text that runs down the left side of my screen.

Sick, to death of it. I want a cure.

Generally, I use FireFox 1.0PR, but I don't think that has anything to do with this, because the pages display the same in IE 6.0. (Well, not the SAME, but the text and whitespace issue I'm bitching about stays the same.)

I'm bitching about the fact that many, many, news/text articles appear as strips of text running down the left of middle of my screen. I'm running 1280x1024, but it's like a waste, because I've got 5 inches of white space on the right side of my screen. It would be beautiful, wonderful, if the damn pages would center the page's content, and put white space on the sides. But no, I'm contemplating sitting 4 inches to the left so the damn text will be dead center in front of me.

What causes this? Is it a bad HTML sort of thing? Is there a setting I could simply chage to make FireFox render the page differently? Am I nuts?

This page, displays centered.

This page, displays all the way over to the left, and sucks.

Yeah, I can reduce my browser window to fit the small ass page, then move the window to center, but that's bull. The page should center in my screen, no matter what. I'd think.

Would some great web guru explain this to me?
Please and Thank you. :thumbsup:

Displays the same in my browser (Firefox 1.0PR), I think its just the way the websites are coded, not the browser, in this case.

yea its how the coding is done on the site.. not much you can really do about it.. i dont think atleast

Yeah, assuming you're running an 800x600 resolution, it was a good choice for readability.. :rolleyes:

Not a pro in HTML by any means, but I'm *sure* you can design a page with frames and tables and allow for any amount of body just to line wrap in whatever space is left- look at TFP..

I also hate this - I think it is mostly caused by people wanting a "pretty" web site that will look the same for everyone. (mostly) graphics people design these kinda things to fit the lowest resolution (currently 800x600), and probably use a program like dreamweaver to create the HTML - any page could be designed without complicated coding to fill the whole screen - generally forum software like this is coded by a nerdy geeky guy who is running 1600x1200 :) and wants to use all that space.

I don't think you can do anything to fix it.

Page isn't being displayed wrong. It is just designed to be a max of 800 wide. Sucks for those with screen sizes larger than 800px. Im running 1024x768 it looks ok the white space isn't as bad.

It's indeed the fault of the pages...

For the designers there seems to be a simple work around too:
put the whole content in a table, single row, 3 'cells'. Make cell 1 and 3 50% wide.

Cell 1 and 3 will try to claim their width, which is prevented by the center cell. result: a perfectly centered site.
At least, that is my experience.

So, in a nutshell:
Most websights were coded by lazy bastards for AOL users on their eMachine?
This is crap.

thats some funny shit....


i think what it is people are using templates like evreyone else said they just hapen to be small res size......


lazy bastards lol
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maybe there all union...

A lot of news websites run portal software, and it handles the formatting for them. I know for a fact Morris Communications runs a portal software package that all of their newspaper sites feed into. Depending on resolution and whatnot, the site may look different.

You have to remember, there are much more people that look at their screen in 800x600 or 1024x768 and not 1600x1200 like myself.

write nasty letters to the web designer...and then...cut off a hand....and watch him code a better site with the remaining one..

not much else yo ucan do really. They make these sites for the lowest common denominator.

I think 800x600 sucks. I think the lowest common denominator sucks. I think society should be RAISING standards, not catering to the bottom dwellers.

Either way, it'd be nice if the code would simply accomodate different users. I'm glad you guys knew what the score was, rather than me keeping playing with settings hoping for a change! Thanks a bunch for that.