Too Late? Page width issue

page width

[Dezblanco]

I think, no I know I've made a huge blunder, I designed what is now a rather large site (over 1000 pages) with a width of 1094px for the content wrapper, problem is a lot of users have monitor only 1024 wide.

I get the occasional complaint about having to scroll right. I know I can set the wrapper to adjust to any window using a width=100%, but many, nearly all, of the elements have fix widths based on the that 1096 number.

I just did the math, I would have about 60 individual items to adjust if we go down to 1000px wide.

Go ahead and tell me, "sorry kid, you got a lot of fixin' to do". I guess what I was hoping for is maybe a script that would force the 1024 and god forbid the 800 wide screens to zoom out if detected. Any such thing?

[willybfriendly]

It is a server side problem. Don't try to solve it on the client side.

At times like this search and replace can be your friend. Oh, and for what its worth, I sometimes am forced to scroll if its over 800 (depending on how many windows I have open, etc.). A fixed width that is that wide is going to chase a lot of folks away...

[Lexur]

If the "items" are text snippets, Search&replace 98.
If the "items" are images, Mihov Image Resizer.
Whatever else? It must be the right tool to do it autmatically. Sure.

[swa66]

CSS3 media queries could help you in modern browsers, problem is most of your users would not be using modern browsers on old screens.

Simplest is to do a redesign I guess (and lock down less in fixed numbers while at it)