Live size in IE6?

Trying to build a webpage 800X600 compatible

[JCman]

Hi everybody:
I'm working on a webpage and trying to determine how to make a web page look great in IE 6 (probably Netscape 4 too) at 800 by 600. Question is, what is the minimum live size (viewable area for pages) so that it will work in both browsers?

Would there be any way to have the web page sized in proportion to the window size?

What would you guys suggest?

Thanks!

:)

[tedster]

Welcome to the forums, JCman.

Best bet to acommodate even our Macintosh friends with a fixed width layout is 744 pixels wide.

Building a site to expand/contract to the available screen area is called "liquid layout" or "flud page layout: - if you do some searching around that term you will pick up some ideas.

Essentially you create at least one table column or div that is a percentage width, rather than a fixed unit of measurement like pixel. How that works out graphically - whether it's a slick looking page or odd and peculiar at different screen sizes is the area where you need to get creative.

Netscape 4 is pretty old by now, and pretty "cranky" as well. Unless you have specific reasons for designing for it, I would suggest it's not worth the trouble - too few users.

If you do want to have N4 users in mind - be aware that many of the remaining users are on Macintosh, and the Mac version is a good bit different from the Windows version.