CSS Resizing

[Goodlookinguy]

Lenny I'm looking at you for help, I know how to do CSS on my own now, but I can't figure out how to resize this properly.

I resized it from 757 to 900 as you will notice below.

body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: normal;
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
background-image: url(http://www.nrgs-fuzion-gaming-america.com/images/bg.png);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
background-position: center top;
background-color: #E5E3D5;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
.tophead {
background-image: url(http://www.nrgs-fuzion-gaming-america.com/images/topbar.png);
height: 31px;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
.main .tophead h1 {
padding-left: 15px;
color: #CC6633;
margin: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
}
.spacer {
clear: both;
}
.main .footer .footertexts {
}
.main .footer .footertexts a {
color: #000099;
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: dotted;
border-bottom-color: #000099;
}

.header {
background-image: url(http://www.nrgs-fuzion-gaming-america.com/images/header.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: 176px;
}
.contents {
background-image: url(http://www.nrgs-fuzion-gaming-america.com/images/contentbg.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center top;
margin-bottom: 25px;
padding-top: 25px;
}
.footer {
background-color: #BEC4F2;
background-image: url(http://www.nrgs-fuzion-gaming-america.com/images/footerdiv.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center top;
height: 85px;
padding-right: 25px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-left: 25px;
padding-top: 35px;
}
.main .contents .right {
float: right;
width: 240px;
margin-right: 15px;
margin-top: 25px;
}
.main .contents .left {
margin-right: 260px;
padding-left: 15px;
padding-right: 10px;
}
.main .contents .left p {
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 16px;
text-align: justify;
}
.main .contents .right .rightcontents {
border: 1px solid #E4DCC2;
padding: 5px;
margin-bottom: 15px;
}
.rightcontents ul {
display: block;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
.rightcontents li {
list-style-type: none;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-bottom: 3px;
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: dashed;
border-bottom-color: #DAD9CB;
}

.rightcontents h2 {
color: #0099CC;
display: block;
margin-top: 2px;
font-weight: bold;
background-color: #F9F5F0;
border-bottom-width: 3px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-bottom-color: #F4EDE3;
padding-left: 5px;
font-size: 18px;
margin-bottom: 12px;
}
.rightcontents .graduate {
background-image: url(images/graduate-postgraduate.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: 43px;
width: 230px;
}




.main {
background-image: url(http://www.nrgs-fuzion-gaming-america.com/images/bg-pg.png);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
width: 900px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
padding: 1px;
}
h1 {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 24px;
color: #336699;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: normal;
}
h2 {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 20px;
color: #996633;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: normal;
display: block;
margin-bottom: 5px;
}
.main .contents .left a:link {
color: #0099FF;
text-decoration: none;
}


h3 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 16px;
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
}
#tabsB {
float:left;
font-size:93%;
line-height:normal;
margin-top: 144px;
width: 893px;
}
#tabsB ul {
margin:0;
list-style:none;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-right: 5px;
padding-bottom: 0;
padding-left: 15px;
}
#tabsB li {
display:inline;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#tabsB a {
float:left;
margin:0;
padding:0 0 0 4px;
text-decoration:none;
background-image: url(http://www.nrgs-fuzion-gaming-america.com/images/tableftB.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left top;
}
#tabsB a span {
float:left;
display:block;
padding:5px 15px 4px 6px;
color:#666;
background-image: url(http://www.nrgs-fuzion-gaming-america.com/images/tabrightB.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: right top;
}
/* Commented Backslash Hack hides rule from IE5-Mac \*/
#tabsB a span {float:none;}
/* End IE5-Mac hack */
#tabsB a:hover span {
color:#000;
}
#tabsB a:hover {
background-position:0% -42px;
}
#tabsB a:hover span {
background-position:100% -42px;
}
.quicklinks {
background-image: url(http://www.nrgs-fuzion-gaming-america.com/images/quicklinks.png);
height: 42px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.main .contents .left a:visited {
color: #0066FF;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.main .contents .left a:hover {

color: #FF9933;
text-decoration: none;
}
.main .contents .left a:active {

color: #0066FF;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.left #news {
height: 25px;
font-size: 18px;
color: #0099CC;
font-weight: bold;
padding-left: 15px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background-color: #F9F5F0;
border-bottom-width: 3px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-bottom-color: #F4EDE3;
padding-top: 3px;
}
.left .date {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-style: italic;
color: #999999;
text-decoration: none;
}
.rightcontents a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #0066FF;
}
.rightcontents a:link {

text-decoration: none;
color: #000000;
}
.rightcontents a {


text-decoration: none;
color: #000000;
}
.rightcontents a:link {


text-decoration: none;
color: #000000;
}
.rightcontents a:active {


text-decoration: none;
color: #000000;
}

If you want to see what I mean by it not resizing quite right take a look here (http://rpgmaker.nrgs-fuzion-gaming-america.com)

Oh, and by the way if all the problem is, is that I have to resize the pictures I was going to do it anyways.

[Lenny]

Resizing the pictures is an idea before carrying on.

It could be that you've set the tables... in fact, nevermind, I've just had a lookee at the page source and noticed that you've done the whole thing using DIVs. I'd have been more inclined to use a table, but that's personal preference. If it wasn't that big a job, I'd say try a page with tables, but it would mean re-coding a big chunk of the CSS.

For the moment, resize everything, and make sure that widths are set for elements that need them - say, erm, just a random example not taken from the CSS above, a content box. Make sure it's set to "width: 900px;" and not just left to work things out itself.

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Just another personal thing - I'd be inclined to do away with settings margins. I've found that they're nothing but trouble. With my CSS I put "margin: 0 auto;" within each element. If you need something to be indented some way into the page, then... no, that goes back to tables - I just make cells the right width and what not. Though I suppose layers could be used - a single row table in front of the rest, containing the thing that needs to be indented with indents controlled by cells.

But it's something maybe worth looking at - make sure all your margins are right.

[Goodlookinguy]

I can't figure it out, and I don't want to convert to tables...

[Lenny]

Any reason why?

Oh, and have you resized all the graphics? If you have, is the resized page uploaded?

[Goodlookinguy]

I resized all of the graphics and tried it on a secret page, and it was just like before except that the lines went out past the white part.

The reason I want to do this is because I don't like the width of the page I want it to be wider.

[Lenny]

Fair enough. But why don't you like tables? :p

And do you mind if I download a page of your site and have a mess around?

[Goodlookinguy]

You can download whatever you want scroll down to the very bottom of the page to download the CSS, it will say CSS and be the color blue.

[Goodlookinguy]

Well Lenny, looks like I went for tables in my new design. I currently have my site down while I'm uploading my new site.

[Lenny]

Yay! Tables is nice. :)

What made you change?

[Goodlookinguy]

It was giving me a lot of issues when trying to place things down.