designing to fit into screen resolution

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aa

what is the most common screen resolution these days?
For what resolution do you usualy design?
What is the technique to designe an HTMP page which would automatically fit
into the resolution set on a particalar Windows installation?
 
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Andy Dingley

aa said:
what is the most common screen resolution these days?

208 x 208 is increasingly popular.
For what resolution do you usualy design?

I don't.
What is the technique to designe an HTMP page which would automatically fit
into the resolution set on a particalar Windows installation?

Fluid design and not caring what screen resolution the user has.

1. You care about window size, not screen size.
2. You don't need to know this: code in a fluid style and let the
user's browser worry about how to render it.
3. A good way to achieve a fluid design is to use simple HTML and
competent CSS (try readign "Head First HTML & CSS" for an intro.
4. Don't _ever_ mess dynamically with the user's window size, window
state, or browser settings.
5. JavaScript is of little use here. A "JavaScript solution" you're
offered is probably quite wrongly intentioned from the outset.
 
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Toby Inkster

Andy said:
5. JavaScript is of little use here. A "JavaScript solution" you're
offered is probably quite wrongly intentioned from the outset.

There are some places where it's quite useful. An example might be to have
two or three different versions of some graphics (logos, maps,
illustrative images, etc), detecting window size and displaying the most
appropriate size (with appropriate markup such that non-Javascript people
can still see the image).

It is *possible* to do this without Javascript, using only CSS, but the
percentage of browsers that support it is very small, so this will only be
appropriate for very specialised pages. For an example, look at the
following page in Opera (which does allow for different styles based on
window size) at 300px width and again at 500px width (you may need to
"reload" between sizes):
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/Software/w3dev_menu/w3dev-3.0.ini
 
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pia

For what resolution do you usualy design? What is the technique to
designe an HTMP page which would automatically fit into the resolution

if you have a lot of pictures involved you could try to make frames, fix
the width of the main frame and put flexible frames around, so the content
is centered.

it will be suitable for low-res and for the high-res you will not have any
scaled up pictures. if you choose a suitable background for
the surrounding frames it also looks good with lots of space around.

regards,pia
 
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Chaddy2222

aa said:
what is the most common screen resolution these days?
For what resolution do you usualy design?

All of them.
What is the technique to designe an HTMP page which would automatically fit
into the resolution set on a particalar Windows installation?
Well, you need to realize that A not everyone users Windows as an OS
and B, not every user users a screen.
Design for the web, not for specific users.
 
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cwdjrxyz

aa said:
what is the most common screen resolution these days?
For what resolution do you usualy design?
What is the technique to designe an HTMP page which would automatically fit
into the resolution set on a particalar Windows installation?

You have received many replies that indicate that there is no single
"best" way for all applications. I have seen a few pages that are
mainly just one large image file such as a jpg. The page images and
text are put together on an image tool such as PaintShop. Then the
image is set to a certain percentage of the page width with css. This
approach has become very popular with some spammers on html email,
because the spam blockers then often can not read text on the page.
Then there is always pdf that is quite popular for some applications -
especially for pages that need to be printed out in an exact format,
such as tax forms.

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Roy A.

aa skrev:
What is the technique to designe an HTMP page which would automatically fit
into the resolution set on a particalar Windows installation?

I don't know why you are assuming that it would be easier to design
for a particular installation, but you could give the users an
opportunity to disable elements that are taking up space in smaller
resolutions. These elements could be presented in another way,
somewhere else on the page.
 
A

aa

Roy, how exactly can I give the users an opportunity to disable elements
that are taking up space in smaller resolutions.
And how these elements could be presented in another way, somewhere else on
the page.
I am not familiar with this technique
 
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Neredbojias

Roy, how exactly can I give the users an opportunity to disable
elements that are taking up space in smaller resolutions.
And how these elements could be presented in another way, somewhere
else on the page.
I am not familiar with this technique

One way to do essentially that is with css floats.
 

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