Hello

when my page loads or when I change categories my page seems to load at about twice the size of my monitor but when the page is completely rendered it is normal. What causes this.

www.crosshairgolf.com

Your page is set up for a screen resolution of 1024 wdith.

I am assuming your monitor is set to 800x600. If you aren't sure how to correct this, right click on you desktop and go to properties. Go to settings, then screen resolution on the left. If your on a Mac change it in System Preferences.

Your tables are set up to span a percentage of the browser window, but set to a minimum of about 900-950 (I didn't dig too deep into you code) which is made for 1024x768 resolution.

Hope this helps.

My personal opinion + my experiences with (many) other people.

Never design a website for a 1024 resolution, it may look cool on your screen, but not everyone has your screen. specially AOL people (no offense but normally AOL user are all clueless, lots of people still dont know how to scroll to the right) and it makes things a bit difficult.

An 800x600 site looks still Ok on a 1024x768 machine. It is better to have extra spaces in between pictures than to have 80% of the information on your customer's screens.. i have been told way too many times is bad. I know is not, but the Customer is always right.

I always design for 800x600 my golden rule. And I NEVER design for a specific browser, not everyone has or knows what I prefer... keep it simple... simple is always good.


Scooter

You should never design for any particular browser. But the average in resolution now is 1024, not 800 anymore.

Here is a useful link for you all.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Right on! .....

So you guys would rather alienate the other 25-30% of the people out there with 800 x 600 resolutions? As a rule of thumb, it is always better to maximize the impact of your design for ALL users.

Just FYI, if you do design for 800x600 you would want the maximum total table width to be no more than 780 pixels. This allows for edge to edge content without getting slider bars on the bottom of screen.

If you look at almost ALL major sites like MSN, Yahoo, and Amazon they are designed for 800x600. You may not think that Amazon is, as it does dynamically scale, but if you window your browser the smallest you can scale the page is 780 pixels.