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A how-you-do-your-computer survey question
Help me out.
I'm an amateur website hacker. I keep my screen resolution set at 1024x768 pixels........and I have a website that looks pretty good at that resolution But I just looked at it in 800x600 pixel mode and it looked pretty bad. Sucked, in fact. So how many readers of this newsgroup keep their computer screens at low resolutions, like 800x600? ****e. Does this mean I have to design for the lowest common denominator? Guess so. /* Sandy Pittendrigh --oO0 ** http://montana-riverboats.com */ |
A how-you-do-your-computer survey question
"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote in message . .. Help me out. I'm an amateur website hacker. I keep my screen resolution set at 1024x768 pixels........and I have a website that looks pretty good at that resolution But I just looked at it in 800x600 pixel mode and it looked pretty bad. Sucked, in fact. So how many readers of this newsgroup keep their computer screens at low resolutions, like 800x600? ****e. Does this mean I have to design for the lowest common denominator? Guess so. /* Sandy Pittendrigh --oO0 ** http://montana-riverboats.com */ 1280 x 800 You could build your webpage in a frame with a set size. That way, the people with smaller screen sizes won't reframe your entire page, messing up the formatting, but will have to scroll back and forth to see the whole thing. As long as you put the important info on the left edge, it won't be a problem. --riverman |
A how-you-do-your-computer survey question
"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote... Help me out. So how many readers of this newsgroup keep their computer screens at low resolutions, like 800x600? 1280 x 1024 Dan |
A how-you-do-your-computer survey question
"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote So how many readers of this newsgroup keep their computer screens at low resolutions, like 800x600? The current 'standard' is to design for 800x600 ( which means that the actual content is smaller than that because the edges of the browser take space as do the toolbars etc. It's not the problem it was a few years back, but different browsers also display the same code differently, especially CSS with older browsers. http://www.kimshew.com/design/useragent.php I no longer give a ****, but when I had sites that needed to please everyone I kept 4 or 5 browsers on my machine and tested all pages in them all. The size-0-matic tool is free and helps with testing at different resolutions ...get it here http://www.pythoness.com/ It is very possible to design pages that scale decently open a typical page on my site http://tinyurl.com/mbbj3 and use size-o-matic to scale it ( or just drag the window to do so ) you will see that all content is visible without horizonal scrolling at 800x600 but it still looks 'ok' at bigger sizes. The content on my site is inserted into templates dynamically, so that same 'design' has to fit content that varies a lot ... you can do nicer looking work with static content pages Another factor is slow downloads ... more and more people have fast connections but the last figure I saw was that over half are still on dial-up http://www.kimshew.com/design/weight.php I never bother to look at the "ton of pictures" TRs posted here because it would take two hours of down load Now this all is important if you're trying to generate traffic that will make you money ... but I wouldn't worry about it for a personal site ... I used to "webmaster" several sites that were commercial so I got into the habit of 'lowest common denominator' pages ... but I'd suggest you suit yourself with your site, unless you have daydreams of DotCom millions to be made G |
A how-you-do-your-computer survey question
"Daniel-San" wrote in news:F2Z0g.48220
: "Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote... Help me out. So how many readers of this newsgroup keep their computer screens at low resolutions, like 800x600? 1280 x 1024 Dan ....why a low resolution? Desk PC @1024x768. Frank Sr |
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Good feedback Larry: This is pretty far Off Topic, but it it is helping out a fishing related site, so think of it as a public service. I found a "browser statistics" site that says 37% of all users STILL use 800x600 resolution. So ****, I have to deal with this one way or the other. I scaled all my image sizes down to no more than 600 pixels wide. Now the pages look OK at low res, but less impressive at high res. I wish there was a way to detect client-side screen resolution.......then you could use url-rewriting to direct the incoming connection to one image-size set or the other. But I don't think that's possible. |
A how-you-do-your-computer survey question
"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote in message . .. Help me out. I'm an amateur website hacker. I keep my screen resolution set at 1024x768 pixels........and I have a website that looks pretty good at that resolution But I just looked at it in 800x600 pixel mode and it looked pretty bad. Sucked, in fact. So how many readers of this newsgroup keep their computer screens at low resolutions, like 800x600? ****e. Does this mean I have to design for the lowest common denominator? Guess so. /* Sandy Pittendrigh --oO0 ** http://montana-riverboats.com */ The computer I use most during the day has two monitors, one at 1920 X 1200 and the other at 1152 X 868, but it's rare I use a browser at full screen on either side,and of the 5 or 6 computers I have to use both at home and work, none are below 1068 X 768. But you can find general usage stats online; here's a good one: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp . Also check your hosts stats information to see what your visitors are actually using. Generally, multi media sites are sized larger than strictly e-commerce or informational sites, a good rule of thumb to cover all browsers, on all OS's, is to set minimum width to 756 or 760. This means your site looks good on the small number (and getting smaller) users at 800 X 600, and by using relative widths (stretchy, as opposed to absolute), you can still look good at the next two resolutions up. Skwala Who does this for a living. |
A how-you-do-your-computer survey question
Sandy Pittendrigh wrote:
Help me out. I'm an amateur website hacker. I keep my screen resolution set at 1024x768 pixels........and I have a website that looks pretty good at that resolution But I just looked at it in 800x600 pixel mode and it looked pretty bad. Sucked, in fact. So how many readers of this newsgroup keep their computer screens at low resolutions, like 800x600? 1152 x 768 -- Cut "to the chase" for my email address. |
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All my pages are generated from a server-side program anyway
(http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1463.html) so I think I'll look into generating two websites. Each page will have a "HiRes/LowRes" button the user can click at any time. Then they can get whatever suits best. So I think I've got the solution. Just have to code it up now. Thank you all. I think I got what I needed. |
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