zollet — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:47:28 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by mairving
But you know what happens when you change someone's resolution. They complain that they can't see their icons, their text is too small, etc.

That's only for the first day or so. When I see someone running low resolution, I tell them to change it to a higher one and that I know it will be too small, but just use it till tomorrow and if it still bothers you by tomorrow, change it back. So far, 100% have been like "WOW, there's so much room on my desktop now, this is so cool!" the next day

mairving — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:11:32 +0000

Maybe we should start a campaign to rid the world of 640x480. But you know what happens when you change someone's resolution. They complain that they can't see their icons, their text is too small, etc.

The Webmistress — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 07:38:32 +0000

This could start up so many other debates as well like fixed or flexible designs, but basically not everyone will see your design as you wanted it but then if they have a small screen, low resolution, extra stuff all around their browser then they'll be used to scrolling!!

mairving — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 01:11:56 +0000

It seems like I run into more and more people that run in a 640x480 mode, then in IE they have the favorites button clicked so that another 100px's or so is gone on the left side. I most often do mine with a mixture of fixed widths at around 720px and % to fill the screen.

Karen Cardinal — Thu, 25 Jul 2002 21:14:27 +0000

Thanks so much for the replys.

I agree that 50 pixels less on width seems to work for everyone I've ever talked to.

I finally found this article at webmonkey:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/41/index3a.html
Hopefully it will at least give me a start in the right direction for sizing my pages vertically.

I guess the finished product will tell.

Suzanne — Thu, 25 Jul 2002 18:09:26 +0000

There used to be all sorts of measures for all the browsers and screen sizes, but for the life of me, I don't know where they are now.

Basically, saving about 50px sideways and not worrying about height is a reasonable estimate. The height will change depending on how many toolbars the person has open on the browser and on the desktop, and will also vary for different operating systems, so anything over 300 px high will probably scroll for someone, somewhere.

zollet — Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:43:59 +0000

This is a very hard question Karen. There is no way you can make it fit perfectly for all users since some users have the address bar and the link bar showing on top of eachother, another person only has the address bar, another person might have some other plugins, etc. About the width, I usually just take whatever screenresolution I'm making the site for and do minus 50px. But then again, if the user is running a higher resolution, he/she is most likely not running the browser maximized.