Posted by windandwaves on 09/21/07 05:27

On Sep 21, 3:53 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> In article
> <1190346155.268500.261...@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
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> windandwaves <nfranc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sep 21, 3:31 pm, dorayme
> > > Be interesting to see
> > > if you could make this page (as an example) fit into 800 wide.
> > > There is little enough (I do not mean unimportant) material here
> > > and if it was not for the graphic constraints of the decorative
> > > images, would easily do so.
>
> > > I think it is true that while many will use this site fine, it
> > > would be clever if you could work it so that it was a bit more
> > > fluid. There are people who would click the text up a few notches
> > > (I do as the day wears on) and there are people who find it
> > > convenient and/or appreciate it when they can to have the browser
> > > on 800px wide max. Clicking text up gets to too quickly break
> > > this design. Lets give this test a name: How about
> > > "text-click-index", the shorter the range before the design
> > > breaks its graphic design looks, the less good it is qua web
> > > design in the ideal? Yours is not totally bad and not totally
> > > good. But it is something to keep in mind.
>
> > Yes, I am working on a smaller window size, however, from our stats
> > info, we found that there are no people who view on smaller
> > screensizes. I have to respect the designer as well...
>
> But your stats are not addressing one of my points. Put it this
> way, I have more screen size than almost everyone in the world
> but i still find it convenient often to limit browser windows to
> 800. I don't have to, i find it nice when i want to. Your stats
> show nothing about this particular aspect unless the survey was
> very particular and good (very rare surveys with these
> qualities).
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> dorayme

Ok, yes, I hear what you are saying... good point. But what if you
want to view a picture that is 960 pixels wide, would you still go for
an 800 wide screen?

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