Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/19/06 18:17

richard wrote:
>
> <newsbirdie2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> My site defines a div that fits into a 1024x768 browser window. For
>> most of my site, my content fits into this area just fine, with some
>> divs having a scrollbar. This lets me put a photo on the right side
>> for example with the text on the left. The box is outlined and there
>> is the copyright on the bottom. See for yourself:
>> http://tinyurl.com/zjzyv
>>
>> now I want to integrate my blog (wordpress) into my site. The problem
>> is that the blog pages are much longer than will fit into my box. So
>> I'd like to know what the best approach is to do this. I see a few
>> options:
>>
>> 1 - fit the blog into the content div and use scroll bars. this will
>> be very ugly so I don't want to go this route.
>>
>> 2 - do away with the bounding box and do it normally. the blog will be
>> fine but it won't be seamlessly integrated into my site.
>>
>> 3 - come up with a way to make the bounding box dimensions dynamic.
>> this sounds like the best approach to me, but I do not think it's
>> possible.
>>
>> So my question is, is it possible to do #3 and if so, how?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
> Yuck.
> Anything I can't stand is a split format like that.
> My browser has an 800x resolution so now I'm forced to deal with dual
> scroll bars.
> I don't care for the mug shot at all. Specially one that size. You could
> downsize it and put it up in one of the corners. Leaving more space to
> work with.
>
> One thing I've learned to do is quite simple. Define a container
> division for your entire page.
> #container{ width:1000px; height:1000px;}.
> or even #container{height:1000px;} and let the browser determine the width.
> Now you have ample space to work with and only one scroll bar.
>

Better yet, don't to either and allow your content adjust the the
visitors browser window! Don't restrict the overall height. With print
we "scroll" horizontally, i.e. turn the page; but on the Internet we
scroll vertically. It is the nature of the media. We even define our
hardware to accommodate the precedent, most mice now have scroll wheels.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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