Automatic resize et al

[sizzla]

Hey, people. First i want to wish all sundry a happy easter holiday. I have a few queries about web design that i need to know:

1. What code function can i use to ensure that my web page automatically resizes widthwise to fit any kind of screen resolution and window size?

2. Secondly, how can i insert a "Print this page" command in a web page (codewise) and how can i ensure that each print operation resuslts in an intelligently word wrapped, truncation-free, black-on-white printout of that web page's main body contents - regardless of the page orientation and user specified text size selection at that time.

3.How can i ensure that the web page's text viewing size selections remain under user control at all times - in conformity with the particular browser tool's available selections.

4. What does developing a website based on open source technology i.e. LAMP mean exactly?


P/S
Even if your response covers at least one question i will appreciate the effort. Thanx in advance.

[sneeuwbal]

1. most of the timeyou can jkust work with percentages to do this.
so a <table width=800> would be something like <table width=80%>

2, 3, 4 don't know

[scrowler]

1) css: width: 100%;, or html: width="100%"

2)

<a href="javascript:window.print()">Print this page!</a>

you can't control the output of what gets printed, it's a browser thing. and this is the only way you can print a page.

3) what do you mean? you can set text size in css like this:

body {
      font-size: 12px; /* you can use a variety of units: px, pt, [none], em, etc. */
}

for more info visit w3schools css here

4) open source technology is generally programming languages like PHP, which are free to use, as opposed to commercial programming languages like ASP, ASP.net etc. open source technology can be implemented into a website to improve it's performance, add exclusive features and decrease load time. you can do things like have one page e.g. products.php which can show all products in a database, instead of having x number of seperate static pages. editing becomes alot easier. read up on php here.

[sizzla]

Thanx people...i got most of the answers online, i guess i was too lazy to search :-)

@Scrowler, when i refer to text size i don't mean CSS, that's childsplay, i mean using JavaScript to create a link where when one clicks on it, it changes the font size. I got a tut online. Thanx anyway for the input.