----- Original Message ----- From: "Siri Amrit Kaur" To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 7:45 AM Subject: Re: OT: web design and screen resolution > On Monday 06 February 2006 12:46 am, Joseph Huber kindly wrote: > Use a fluid CSS layout that will expand and contract according to the > viewers' > needs. Go for web standards so that your pages will render correctly in > most > browsers. Avoid fixed-fonts; let people make their fonts bigger or smaller > as > they like. Don't make your pictures too big at the higher resolution, or > they'll be enormous at 800x600 and may break the layout . > > My site (see sig) is pretty nice at 1024x768 and 800x600. I've never seen > it > on a 19" monitor, so I don't know how it is on that. The fonts are pretty > big > at 800x600, but believe it or not, a lot of people have bad eyesight and > like > larger fonts. The majority of monitors in use are set for 1024x768, and > the > second highest users are using 800x600. That may vary depending on your > market. Maybe you're selling something to people who like the latest and > greatest in hardware, and more of them will have bigger monitors. > > There are lots of free CSS templates available on the web that you can > experiment with. I started with one that had the features I wanted and > played > around with the fonts and colors, then I sent it to a graphic artist who, > for > very little money, tweaked it to make it prettier. There are also tools > you > can use to see how your pages look in different browsers. Interesting website... actually I am redesigning my wife's (who's graduating from SCNM this summer) natural medicine site that I 1st put together a little over a year and a half ago. For a 1st attempt at a website I suppose it was okay but I've been thinking, for over a year at this point, that we ought to be able to do better. In any event I am trying to base everything on 1 (or 2) style sheets in the redesign. I'm using the "rant" over at the noodle incident as a starting point http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/design_rant/index.html. The right hand menu layout has sort of grown on me but I haven't been able to get a
that will extend the footer across the bottom of the page (it floats below the text in the main column or becomes a part of the "menu" which runs longer than the main column). I moved the menu over to the left side yesterday... but that leaves me with problems with the 2 columns running over top of each other if I start shrinking the window or resize the font and a "lopsided feel" (I'm being technical here) at either 800x600 or 1024x768. Thanks Joe > HTH, > > Siri Amrit > -- > Tigerflag Natural Perfumery, LLC > www.tigerflag.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss