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(Message started by: Ken on Jul 26^th, 2006, 9:42pm)

Title: Should I design in 800x600 or 1024x768?
Post by Ken on Jul 26^th, 2006, 9:42pm

What screen size are most of you using to design your sits in? I've tried 800x600 and that seems to work best. 1024x768 seems to have many issues with layout? Even with tables. It seems that 90% of viewers use 1024x768 but I have been having issues when checking it with OLD monitors/systems. Should I just forget about the old school users? Any suggestions?

Title: Re: Should I design in 800x600 or 1024x768?
Post by Support Staff on Jul 27^th, 2006, 11:41am

Hi! Please read the Chapter
"Graphics and paging pages" of the PDF manual.

You should design for ALL resolutions, in other words, you should try to create pages that will automatically resize no matter the browser dialog width (only the 30% of the people uses the browser in full screen, don't forget this!).

See that Chapter for suggestions, reasons, tricks....

Title: Re: Should I design in 800x600 or 1024x768?
Post by ken on Jul 27^th, 2006, 2:25pm

I did read it a few times!! It's very inconclusive. Guess I'll just play with it some more. the page in the editor looks nothing like the actual web page. Seems to be no pattern to the madness!! Got ME!!

Title: Re: Should I design in 800x600 or 1024x768?
Post by Support Staff on Jul 29^th, 2006, 3:01am

We don't find it inconclusive at all. Of course the possible layouts are infinite so it can't give precise suggestions for any situation.

As for the layout, usually what you see in the editor is exactly what you obtain.
In order to test, try to resize the editor dialog (in width).

A common criteria for the Web, that very often seem strange at the first sight, is that the table columns do follow a couple rules:
- if there is a large image within a table, the column is enlarged in order to fit the image
- if you fix the column width to be (say) 100 pixel, and the other column in percent or free, unfortunately most browsers tend very often to not respect the 100 pixel. To force a column with 100 pixel width for all browsers, just insert a transparent image that's 100 pixel width (or a smaller image, you can force its width to 100 or any other number with the image Properties - in any case it is transparent so....)

In other words, most browsers have some weakness (and/or some criteria that may be good sometimes), the trick is to exploit them.

You may see a couple of examples here:

www.visualvision.com/download/example_cdfe_site.zip

www.visualvision.com/download/example_ryan.zip

and copy/explore some tricks......... :-)

Title: Re: Should I design in 800x600 or 1024x768?
Post by Support Staff on Jul 29^th, 2006, 3:01am

P.S. you are welcome to post a link to other files with examples............