Hey all
I have just been told by someone that my website elements are too large for his screen. I think he has either a 12 or 15 inch. my pages are sized 1024 by 768…
I use a 17 inch Macbook pro so all looks perfect to me
what can I do to resolve this?
thanks for help
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Well I’d suggest for the future to build your sites at a maximum width of 1000px. As for the now you’re going to have to resize it or just tell them that’s how it goes.
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Thanks Dan
well I have the width at 1024, so yes I think I will say too bad as that is close enough
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ahhmmm - not sure if my statement is correct here (cause it’s a bit unproven) but isn’t it fact, that it furthermore depends on viewers presetting “monitor-solution” than on his “monitor-size”?
I have here a 21" iMac. If I set my Monitor to be 640x480 I am nearly unable so see anything on the screen. Or the other way round: You try to plan pages depending on someones presettings?
I never proper understood these things, but I’m sure you should be happy with 1024px.
Personal I prefer 960px width coming from the 960 gridsystem that I really like: http://960.gs/
Cheers
Thomas
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Like Thomas, I mostly use 960 px width, but at the end of the day, as he suggests, it depends on two factors: monitor resolution and browser window size (neither of which you can legitimately control).
Also bear in mind that while many of us on this forum sport generously sized monitors, many businesses go for smaller, cheaper options to keep IT costs down. Internationally there are also many countries who are not yet as advanced as us in their IT technology and rely on older standards and even our cast-offs. Unlike us, the majority also rely on PCs not Macs and the dreaded IE!
It is a factor often overlooked in web design, where we may assume that our equipment is typical, partly because that is so for our kind of business. In the commercial and industrial world, however, things may be different, so we should look at our target market from all aspects. If it’s creative directors, you can go big; if it’s widget manufacturers, don’t get to expansive and for the consumer, where wider screens are gaining ground, 960 px sits just fine.
Colin
On 31 Jan 2011, at 10:48, Thomas Kimmich wrote:
ahhmmm - not sure if my statement is correct here (cause it’s a bit unproven) but isn’t it fact, that it furthermore depends on viewers presetting “monitor-solution” than on his “monitor-size”?
I have here a 21" iMac. If I set my Monitor to be 640x480 I am nearly unable so see anything on the screen. Or the other way round: You try to plan pages depending on someones presettings?
I never proper understood these things, but I’m sure you should be happy with 1024px.
Personal I prefer 960px width coming from the 960 gridsystem that I really like: http://960.gs/
Cheers
Thomas
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I am going through the same thing and ended up choosing the 960 x 720 format. I searched and found a couple sites which had recent data about monitor usage and it appears that only about 3-5% of the browsing public are still using monitors set to less than 1024 width. What made this a tough sell to my client is that they were one of those 3-5% lol
I convinced them to buy a new monitor and go with the 960 website!
Good Luck!
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Yep I also prefer 960px page width
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Me too for 960 - which allows for a 1024 monitor less scrollbars etc. and wriggle room.
David
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