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Kathleen Coyne
I just dicovered that AOL has inadvertantly thrown in it's own
loophole to browser compatability.
The nice rule of thumb is to design for 800x600, right? Because,
surprisingly, a lot of people still use 800x600. I thought it was
just the hard of sight and laptop users that used that setting, but I
have discovered TONS of people use that setting on a regular basis. I
guess people just like things big...
Anywho, also, a lot of people use AOL. Sadly, a big chunk of my
target audience. That means, a big chunk of my target audience uses
AOL at a screen resolution of 800x600.
This is a problem. AOL's in system browser automatically decreases
the the width of the browser by around an inch on both sides!
Meaning... they see a lot less width than 800 pixels...
This is causing a big problem in how my site is viewed. I used CSS to
line it up (it is arranged with a left navigation bar, body, and
footer), and when viewed at a smaller than 800 px width, the body goes
below the navigation bar.
This is a portfolio site, so it needs to look "pretty" at all times...
especially to that big chunk of my target audience!
I could use tables, which would automatically resize the width to the
smallest alowable, but I don't think this will entirely fix my
problem. Since it is a portfolio site, it's filled with thumbnail
images with a fixed width... and thus with the navigation bar at the
thinnest possible and the columns of three thumbnails, it comes to
exactly 800 px wide. Meaning... even if I did switch to tables, AOL
users will have to resize their window or scroll to view the entire
page.
I am perplexed. Any ideas on how to fix this problem?
I have a particular issue with this site I'm designing, as the person
I'm designing it for does not want any scrolling on the site. He says
he never realizes that he has to scroll on a website, and always
misses information. He has told me in these blunt terms that I have
to design this for "a complete and utter idiot."
No scrolling at all? PLUS, he views the web via AOL at 800x600. Any
ideas on how to design something like that? What I did was compromise
and made it fit width wise for 800x600 and height wise for 1000x800.
But when viewed at a much larger resolution (which is again a valuable
part of my target audience), it's just a small box in the middle of
the screen. He doesn't like that at all.
Any ideas?
loophole to browser compatability.
The nice rule of thumb is to design for 800x600, right? Because,
surprisingly, a lot of people still use 800x600. I thought it was
just the hard of sight and laptop users that used that setting, but I
have discovered TONS of people use that setting on a regular basis. I
guess people just like things big...
Anywho, also, a lot of people use AOL. Sadly, a big chunk of my
target audience. That means, a big chunk of my target audience uses
AOL at a screen resolution of 800x600.
This is a problem. AOL's in system browser automatically decreases
the the width of the browser by around an inch on both sides!
Meaning... they see a lot less width than 800 pixels...
This is causing a big problem in how my site is viewed. I used CSS to
line it up (it is arranged with a left navigation bar, body, and
footer), and when viewed at a smaller than 800 px width, the body goes
below the navigation bar.
This is a portfolio site, so it needs to look "pretty" at all times...
especially to that big chunk of my target audience!
I could use tables, which would automatically resize the width to the
smallest alowable, but I don't think this will entirely fix my
problem. Since it is a portfolio site, it's filled with thumbnail
images with a fixed width... and thus with the navigation bar at the
thinnest possible and the columns of three thumbnails, it comes to
exactly 800 px wide. Meaning... even if I did switch to tables, AOL
users will have to resize their window or scroll to view the entire
page.
I am perplexed. Any ideas on how to fix this problem?
I have a particular issue with this site I'm designing, as the person
I'm designing it for does not want any scrolling on the site. He says
he never realizes that he has to scroll on a website, and always
misses information. He has told me in these blunt terms that I have
to design this for "a complete and utter idiot."
No scrolling at all? PLUS, he views the web via AOL at 800x600. Any
ideas on how to design something like that? What I did was compromise
and made it fit width wise for 800x600 and height wise for 1000x800.
But when viewed at a much larger resolution (which is again a valuable
part of my target audience), it's just a small box in the middle of
the screen. He doesn't like that at all.
Any ideas?