How do I prevent my website design from changing on different computer screens? How can I keep it the same?

I design my own websites on Dreamweaver and everytime I look at my website on another computer the things I designed (i.e. pictures, layers, frames, etc.) are out of place or the font is completely changed. What do I need to do in order for my wesbite to be uniform on every computer? Is there an HTML code that prevents this from happening?

Your site will never look the same on all computers but nevertheless there are things you can do to make it more consistent.

Different browsers will show your site differently so test your code in at least IE6, IE7 and Firefox.

Differently-sized monitors will show your site differently. Decide whether you want a liquid layout or a fixed-width layout or a mix of both: this will depend on how much and what kind of content your site is to have. If it's fixed-width a good maximum width is 800pixels.

Always test to make sure your html and css code validates 100%.

Stop using Frames, they are obsolescent and generally problematic.

Separate content and style. Content markup (div, h1, h2, p tags etc) goes in the html; all styling information (size, color, background images, fonts, widths, borders etc) goes in the css stylesheet. Don't use tables for page layout.

The first instruction in your css stylesheet should reset all margins and padding to zero i.e.

* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

Then for h1, h2, p tags etc you can set specific margins/padding instead of the browsers using their own default settings.

Don't try to control the design too much. For example use % or em to set font sizes, never an exact number of pixels e.g. 14px. That way a partially-sighted user can increase the text size to make your site more readable to them.

You shouldn't need to instruct visitors which browser or screen resolution to use, not if you've got the design right. You only tend to see this on really amateur sites.

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