What is a good page to set the pages to? Right now in Freeway Pro. It is set to 550 by 700. Is this the standard or should it be something else?
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That’s not any page size you should be using at the moment – it’s based on an A4 piece of paper, I think. As to what’s a good size, you should decide what sort of site you are making – and for whom – and think about what sort of devices people are likely to use when visiting your site. The days of there being a single “good” size are long over (if they ever existed at all). Any ten of us could give you ten different sizes, and they would all be valid for our visitors or our sites.
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On Jul 3, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Howard Spaeth wrote:
What is a good page to set the pages to? Right now in Freeway Pro. It is set to 550 by 700. Is this the standard or should it be something else?
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Hmm ok. I guess I’ll just have to play with it then
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Some info here
http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/best-screen-size/
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Marcel
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I guess I’ll just have to play with it then
And bear in mind that it is rare for a desktop user to have their browser window size as large as their screen size.
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My all-time answer was 960px.
Today I know, that “fixed” or pixel-based widths were agreements made on assumptions. This is just because the early web-designers needed a “canvas” - similar to the brochure they worked on. To this time, there had been a handful devices and screen-sizes. So they came up with agreements like: 15" → 600x480, 17" → 800x600 21"->1024x768 (based on statistics as shown in the list above).
It had been the time of “pixel-by-pixel” design, rock-solid wrapped in a static table based layout (the first available hack) - the ideal playground for WYSIWYG.
And today?
Web is not print - so a web-page has no traditional dimension (and never had btw.). Tables for construction purposes are out (mail as one exception) cause we position our stuff by CSS. Our job is, sharing the page we work on, for every device (and every browser window width) the best we can. This is the reason why fluid-grid, flexible widths, flexible images and medias entered the planet (and some cool CSS properties to make use of them).
Some people call this “I make my page responsive”. I call it “I keep my page responsive”.
However the 960 grid is still not bad - but my practice these days is: 65% (on big screens), 75% (on medium screens), 90% for all bigger mobile devices and 95% on the smaller mobile devices.
So no WYSIWYG anymore?
Well - it may happen, that the visual construction part slightly differs from the truth in the browser. WYSIWYG is still alive and will ever be - as long its community starts to see the benefits. A 100% dynamic workspace (canvas) would be the billion dollar strike - just my two cents.
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Thomas
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