By: John Vinson

Make sure your website scales well: So, you’ve worked tirelessly on your website and it’s finally finished. Everything looks great, that is until you let your friend look at it on his/her monitor.  Then everything goes to hell. Unfortunately making your site scale to all monitors, and monitor configurations perfectly is impossible. But you can always make it better.

First, try and keep your width to 800 or less. Rarely, do sites even need to be wider than that anyway. But just a friendly reminder, as people don’t mind scrolling up and down as much as they do side-to-side. Your code can greatly help this problem as well.

The more browser testing, the better: If you used Dreamweaver as your design program, then you can never have too many browsers in your test list. In fact, there really isn’t a negative to have more browsers. Unless you think it’s going to take you along time to test all of them. But the time is worth it to make sure your site is compatible no matter what browser someone is using.

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