page width for screen resolution 1024+

I'm facing an age old question of html page width - have decided graphics have more "je nai say quo" with fixed than percentage and so to go with a central column of 1000px (with 1024 screen res in mind)

with graphics in mind, i also want left and right of the central column some nice bordering opti开发者_如何学Goons - increasing the total width potentially by any amount.

so my question is whether its possible to open up a page on a 1024 screen res and have it auto scroll so the middle column shows (regardless of the left border).

today - on the site http://www.delightwebdesign.co.uk the left invisible border - only visible with firebug (intended for graphics) at the moment pushes the middle column rightwards and partly out of view, I'd essentially like the top left of a low res browser to start with the top left of the middle column?

thanks and all input much appreciated

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You could listen for the load event and then scroll to the position of your middle column (either get the position by JS, or a pre-set position).

Example (jQuery used for brevity):

$(document).ready(function(){
    document.scrollTo(200,0);
}