Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 06/28/05 09:56

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:58:14 GMT, kyra <kyra@cotse.com> wrote:

>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?

....right, and what I'm saying is that there simply is no site that
does that. Liquid sites as they currently are would look like crap up
or down the res scale simply because the images can't adapt. What I'm
saying is that with this new methodology I've made it'll look the same
on any resolution...EXACTLY the same, regardless even of what browser
you're using.

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Onideus Mad Hatter
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