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Benson
08-18-1999, 10:04 AM
Does anyone design web pages for 640X480 any more?[nbsp][nbsp]A single page, designed NOT to scroll, looks mighty small when viewed at 800X600, much less 1024X768!!
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elite
08-18-1999, 10:35 AM
I design mine for around that resolution but mine is slightly bigger. There are ways to automaticly point someone with differnt rezolution sizes to differnt pages though. Here is one way, with java, but I have not tested it for cross browser accuracy...


<BODY onLoad=&quot;checkres()&quot;>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
function checkres(){
[nbsp][nbsp][nbsp][nbsp][nbsp][nbsp][nbsp][nbsp]var tools=java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
[nbsp][nbsp][nbsp][nbsp][nbsp][nbsp][nbsp][nbsp]var size=tools.getScreenSize();

[nbsp]if (size.width >= 1000) {
[nbsp][nbsp]document.location.href = &quot;http://www.[nbsp][nbsp] .html&quot;;
[nbsp]}

[nbsp]if (size.width == 800) {
[nbsp][nbsp]document.location.href = &quot;http://www.[nbsp][nbsp] .html&quot;;
[nbsp]}
[nbsp][nbsp]
[nbsp]if (size.width == 640) {
[nbsp][nbsp]document.location.href = &quot;http://www.[nbsp][nbsp] .html&quot;;
[nbsp]}
}

</SCRIPT>
<!-- NO_AUTO_LINK -->
[This message has been edited by elite (edited 08-18-99)]
Benson
08-18-1999, 03:40 PM
ahhaaaa...lots of victuals for thought. Thanks
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jameson
08-18-1999, 04:17 PM
I design and always will for 640x480...

If you did some research, I bet that you would find that more users have their resolution at 640x480 than any other.[nbsp][nbsp]If you use tables or frames, you can always have one column fill whatever space isn't allotted...

I use Dreamweaver 2 (get it if you don't have it... MACROMEDIA IS AWESOME), usually having a borderless table fill 100% of the width of the page, 3 columns (sidebar 150 pixels, spacer 20 pixels, main content remaining) and it has always worked well...
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Shaytar
08-19-1999, 12:00 AM
I usually design for 800x600, cuz that's what my monitor is set to (won't do 1024x768 even though it is SUPPOSED to - bah).
But last night I had to resize one of my pages for a friend who still uses 640x480, and geezzz did it look funny to me.[nbsp][nbsp]But he was tickled pink that I went to the trouble to do that.[nbsp][nbsp]This was a personal page, mind you, not a commercial one.
I try to keep table and page width to 700 max.[nbsp][nbsp]That way, at least they're not scrolling too much at 640, and it still looks decent at 800.

Too lazy to do the JavaScript re-direct thing elite mentioned.[nbsp][nbsp]That would mean duplicates of everything! Ack!

Shay
Charles Capps
08-19-1999, 12:30 AM
All of my designs are meant to work in 640 x 480...[nbsp][nbsp]I don't think you'll find any &quot;professional&quot; site designed for anything over 640x480.[nbsp][nbsp]:)
Stephen
08-19-1999, 12:54 AM
Yup, I always shrink my browser down in size and if it doesn't all fit in the window it's time to fiddle with that page design. Don't forget, people are moving to hand-held devices that view web pages, so if anything, the smaller format is becoming MORE important, not less.