Resolution Question

[Crimson 0]

What is the highest screen resolution this site supports. My monitor is 17" and its native resolution is 1280 x 1024. Anything under that is way to huge.

[Super-Bob 0]

800x600 and up.

[Specter 0]

Arent most websites designed that way nowadays? 800x600 and up?

[Super-Bob 0]

Well, most sites have a dynamic width.

[Rocky 1,224]

This site uses fixed width tables so any display of 800x600 and above should look okay.

Some sites stretch dynamically to fill the whole display whatever the resolution. That's a good solution, but can give headaches during the design process. It takes a bit more setting up.

Some sites will print "looks best at 1024 and above" on their homepage, that's the worst - forcing or expecting the visitor to change their display resolution just to view one site is a little bizarre in my book.

[Super-Bob 0]

That's a good solution, but can give headaches during the design process. It takes a bit more setting up.

Not if you use fill images.

[Rocky 1,224]

That's a good solution, but can give headaches during the design process. It takes a bit more setting up.

Not if you use fill images.

That's what I mean

Designing a graphic with a fill image is fairly easy, but one that makes the fill image not so obvious is a little more time consuming. I started to this for GR.net a while back with the help of Spray but ran out of time.

Once you've done that you have to look at the page layout again, because the hieght of the page reduces as the wifth increases, so things look a lot differently layoutwise. You have to make sure it doesn't look silly in either of the top 2 resoltions.

Then you have to view in a few browser text-size settings to see how that screws it up, and make allowances for that, while trying to avoid using fixed font sizes.

[Super-Bob 0]

If you contain everything well then you won't get weirdlookingness. Take a look at the way IPB does it.