Posted by kyra on 06/28/05 06:58

Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:


>
> ...not really, because currently there is no such thing as a liquid
> site. There's liquid text and basic image elements, but that's it.
> If you were to go to a "liquid" site right now you'd wind up looking
> at a site with iddy bitty tiny images with the page stretched out
> REALLY far and you'd lose the 800x600 72 character line length
> standard (I forget how the measurement translates in higher
> resolutions). Really the idea is that everything should just be
> bigger on a higher resolution so you're seeing the site exactly the
> way it was intended to be seen. The problem with using 1920x1200 as a
> standard base is pretty obvious, starting images off at that size
> would result in rather enormous file sizes. Although in 5 to 10 years
> I'll probably be using it.

see, heres where we differ on opinions. i can look at stats of my site
and see all the diff resolutions and the percentages. when i design for
my own site, as well as others.. and when i look at others,.. i can see
a major difference between people who only make a site for say one or
two sizes.. and ones who take into account even different browsers, diff
operating systems and different resolutions and combinations of these
acocunt for what others see.

I DONT design in the size i view the web normally in. I have a desktop
comp that I usually design in 1024 768.. BUT the difference is 1024 768
looks different in Mac's IE, Macs netscape, *linux Netscape, Opera for
Widnows and Opera for *nix.. and even different versions of firefox,
netscape, ie and other browsers. I test it on different computers
running diff resolutions , different os's and different browsers and try
to make it come as close to the same in all of them as i can.

I cant stand sites that only look good in one or two sizes in just one
or two browsers. each persons monitor size, graphics card, browser and
resolution and combinatiosn will be different. if you want to get the
best out of your audience, you want to target that stuff for who uses
the site. You have to take into account your target audience, what
browsers, screen res they most commonly use, what monotor size (yes it
makes a difference even in the same resolution) etc.. you want it to be
as close to the same looking in all different aspects.

if you dont, you turn away many people who might have wanted to view it,
but it doesnt look right. would you rather turn away 30% of the people
that view it b ecause it doesnt look right in higher than 1024x768? or
would you rather put for a little extra effort and make it browser and
resolution freindly for 25% of the 30% you might have turned away?

granted you cant please everyone all the time, but why not take the
extra effort and make something that willa ccomidate mroe than just 2
sets of stastics at 800x600 and 1024x768 in just say - ie?



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-kyra

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