Does everyone here design for 800x600 resolution or for 1024x768, are there any tricks to making sites look good on both, flash, html, etc...
cmills83 8 Posting Whiz in Training
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Jump to Post— Antonbomb22 36um the best for html and hard coding is using percents instead of set widths. that is my only advice;)
Jump to Post— rixius 0Usually I design liquid layouts, but when doing fixed width, I always make them 780px wide or less, to account for scroll bars, etc.
Jump to Post— Zachery 43I code for every resolution, if its a fixed width 760px.
Just code to the standards and keep the little guy in mind and you will be fine :)
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Antonbomb22 36 Junior Poster in Training
um the best for html and hard coding is using percents instead of set widths. that is my only advice;)
Ragnarok 0 Junior Poster in Training
If you do use set width to 780 or less (it gives spac for the scroll par in 800x600 resolution)
rixius 0 Posting Whiz in Training
Usually I design liquid layouts, but when doing fixed width, I always make them 780px wide or less, to account for scroll bars, etc.
Zachery 43 The Geek Father Team Colleague
I code for every resolution, if its a fixed width 760px.
Just code to the standards and keep the little guy in mind and you will be fine :)
Slade 66 Practically a Master Poster
Use percentage values to define the height and width of anything, this way it should look great across all platforms and browsers. Also, the very best way to layout a web page, if you want it to be viewable across all browsers is using css, it is soooo good for compatability, tables aren't a great way to lay out as some of it isn't valid html 4.0
Dani 5,664 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster
CSS for everything other than tabular data. I design for 800x600 but keep in mind most of my visitors use 1024x768. I use fixed height and percentage widths ;)
DaveSW 15 Master Poster
I'm always a fan of fluid css layouts and php includes.
I also like layout-o-matic - http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/layoutomatic.php although I always build my own layouts from scratch.
Dani 5,664 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster
Thank you so much for sharing that URL. I just checked it out and it's really great. I might even use it myself to make all of DaniWeb CSS friendly!
Arizona Web 5 Junior Poster
When designing fixed width, try to design for 744. IE on a mac is the smallest screen I design for.
cmills83 8 Posting Whiz in Training
Gotcha, thanks for the replies. I usually with html do 100% width's on tables, etc, and flash usually 760 just wondering what everyone else did, thanks.
DaveSW 15 Master Poster
Thank you so much for sharing that URL. I just checked it out and it's really great. I might even use it myself to make all of DaniWeb CSS friendly!
Glad you like it! There's also list-o-matic...
and list-a-matic...
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/
:D
(As being the same family of tools)
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