Brian Farkas — Tue, 04 Jul 2000 20:57:16 +0000

Yes... 760 is usually the max. width you want to make your tables for 800x600. Basically, pages designed for 800x600 should be able to be viewed at any resolution higher than 800x600 without having problems. So yes, if your resolution size was 1200x900, you should probably design for 800x600 and CENTER the table _OR_ make the tables percentage based, so they stretch out based on resolution.

Brian Farkas

Justin S — Tue, 04 Jul 2000 19:00:39 +0000

Sorry, but this post is a little off topic. If you have no margins then make the table width 780, and if you do have the normal margins then you can make the width of the table 760. That's what works on my 800x600 resolution.

syaegerii — Tue, 04 Jul 2000 18:12:22 +0000

Brian, you mentioned the most common resolution as being 800x600. I'm glad I caught that since I've not thought about it much.
Before I read up on it, I wanted to display my ideas on the subject to see where I'm off:

To the designer, does that mean that if your monitor's res. is 800x600, then your okay??
If your monitor's res. is bigger, then you should make the page 800x600. ie, if my res. is 1200x900, then I could put the page in a table sized at 800x600??

AndyB — Tue, 04 Jul 2000 02:13:00 +0000

If your images are REALLY worth protecting, you could take a look at http://www.psyral.com (but it's not free protection) for image applets.

'awful quality' .. I assume that you are not using AOL's proprietary ART compression???

Brian Farkas — Tue, 04 Jul 2000 01:56:54 +0000

I don't have experience in the GoLive software itself, but did you say you are having problems with the quality of the image when opening it or when saving it? GoLive shouldn't touch the images when it opens them, just display them- so I don't see what would be causing the problem opening it. However, if you experience that problem when saving it, you might try saving at a higher quality.

I use a 17" monitor, but I think what you really want to know is what resolution to design for. The most common one is 800x600, and that is what I as a web designer design for most of the time. You should always make pages viewable without scrolling sideways at 800x600. A smaller portion of the web surfs at 640x480, so if it is essential that your site be seen by everyone you might wish to design for this group.

You could "watermark" your images using a filter such as DigiMark....

Good luck!

Brian Farkas