website and different screen sizes
Niklas Persson
I need help in solving a problem with viewning a website in different screen
sizes. I have designed a website in the screensize 1024x768 and when i look
at in 800x600 it looks completely messed up.
What's the best way of getting around this problem. I meen how do I make
websites look the same regardless of screen size.
Please help me !
Rgds
Niklas
JH
Niklas Persson <niklas...@telia.com> wrote in message
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> I have designed a website in the screensize 1024x768 and when i look
> at in 800x600 it looks completely messed up.
> What's the best way of getting around this problem.
Design with percentages where appropriate, and keep resolutions other than
your own in mind through all stages of development. Testing for proper
display at different resolutions should be done very early in the design
process, not after the fact.
> I meen how do I make
> websites look the same regardless of screen size.
Not gonna happen. What you _can_ do is to design with an eye toward
flexibility.
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Rob - Rock13.com
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>Niklas Persson <niklas...@telia.com> wrote in message
>news:JDEF5.632$jv2....@newsc.telia.net...
>> I have designed a website in the screensize 1024x768 and when i
>> look at in 800x600 it looks completely messed up.
>> What's the best way of getting around this problem.
>
>Design with percentages where appropriate, and keep resolutions
>other than your own in mind through all stages of development.
It is probably best to design at 800x600, the window anyhow not
necessarily your resolution. Then of course test at various
resolutions/window sizes. BrowserSizer is a little Win app that swaps
the window size around to mimic various resolutions including WebTV
size.
>> I meen how do I make
>> websites look the same regardless of screen size.
>
>Not gonna happen. What you _can_ do is to design with an eye
>toward flexibility.
Screen size isn't even the issue, its window size. Using the proper
mix of percents, pixels, and no suggestion will lead to a decent
representation in the largest viewing environments. But the further a
window size deviates from that in which you are designing the more
the design will fall apart. Personally, I don't worry about window
sizes above 1024x768. If they want to surf the net with a frigging
huge window then they can deal with the mess.
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DABEARSSHOP
experience - we originally designed our site when we had Web TV - very
interesting how big "font size=1" looks on a 25" TV screen...and how very tiny
on a 15" monitor! Until viewing our site on a computer monitor, we've must've
drove our non-Web TV visitors crazy. Our second experience came after getting
our computer, we redesigned our site at the 1024x768 setting - like yours, it
looked great at that setting, however, we added a counter/tracker recently and
have found that about 60% of our visitors use the 800x600 setting and about 25%
at the 1024x768, with the rest smaller or larger. That caused us to revamp our
site once again - we're very "image" intensive and had to resize them so they'd
fit the "smaller" window. Some interesting other data - about 90% use Windows
98 / 65% use 16-bit color / 70% use IE browser V.4 or 5 - 20% Netscape browser.
These are recent figures based on about 600 unique visitors. We're very new to
the 'net & computers, but after reading the expert responses to this newsgroup
- there is no way you can please everyone who will visit your site.
Hope this helps.
Da Bears