SillyDog701 Message Centre

[Antony]

A while ago, SillyDog701 Message Centre updates it's layout slightly... making the layout more suitable to browser windows opened at around 800 pixels wide.

screenshot (scaled down to 450px):


For users of using 1024 pixels wide browser windows, it should not be a big issue, at least we don't fill the white space with annoying ads.

screenshot (scaled down to 450px) from a browser window opened at 1024 pixels wide, I think it is acceptable.



A few users asked me why I do not align the layout to fit the maximum screen width... Well, if I do so, and use a browser with maximum screen size (maximised), people with Apple Cinema Display 20-inch would get following (scaled down to 450px wide)

(SillyDog701 Message Centre logo is intently left at position that confines to 750-pixel width.)

My recommendation to Windows users, please learn to use windows.



Moderator Note added by DJGM:
The first seven posts in this thread were split from The Really Quite
Unusual Screengrabs Thread . . . , to stop it going far too off-topic.

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[Pu7o]

And how about aligning the logo as well as the rest of the layout?

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Henceforth, you shall be known as... Darth Extremist.

[Pu7o]

[Don_HH2K]

Another thing that should be noted in addition to this being a matter of preference is that not every browser takes a two-pane approach such as Safari, IE, and Firefox do. The width of these browsers is the width of the content you're viewing.

I run at 1024x768, but I have a three-pane view browser, that is, toolbars on top, sidebar on the bottom-left, and content on the bottom-right. So if I stay maximized, my browsing area works out to somewhere around 850x600. If I use a window at 800x600, then my total viewpoint of the browsing area works out to more like 640x480, which is too low, as I've found, for browsing. Out of habit, though, I run Netscape 4 maximized at 1024x768 as well on my NT machine.

Of course, when I use a high screen resolution like 1280x960 (as is the case on my 2000 machine), I actually do use a window, for the reasons Antony mentioned above. Though I haven't measured it, the windows I use appear to be somewhere around 1000x800 (best guess).

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[Antony]

[DJGM]

[beanboy89]

I use secren resoultions of 1152x864 on a 17" LCD display and 1024x768 on a 15" CRT display. I could run up to 1280x1024 on the 17" display, but I run a lower resoultion for my parents who want increased visibility and readibility.

On both screens, I always run with my browser windows maximized because I want to see as much web content as possible while reducing the amount I have to scroll. Even If I did run at 1280x1024 on my 17" display, I'd still run my browser window maximized.

To prevent this thread from becomming too off-topic, I suggest a forum moderator to split these past few messages off into a new topic.

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[Antony]

[Antony]

That, I really don't understand the virtue of "maximised" viewing or using entire screen estate to read web pages. And I always have problem with websites stating "best viewed with 1024x768 or higher resolution" (or similar).

Asking visitors to change their screen setting just to view someone's web site is extremely demanding, in my opinion.

Further, when they said "1024x768" resolution, they don't just mean the screen setting, but also imply that visitors use entire screen just for that particular web site.

Anyhow, this is the screenshot of browsing a website in Windows users "browsing habit".


(downsized from 1920x1200 resolution)

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[DJGM]

[Edward]

My two monitors are:

19" LCD, 1280x1024

17" CRT, 1024x768

and I've been having an interesting time with the SeaMonkey (Linux) font settings. I haven't had much luck getting a font size to force a web page to appear correctly (no ads over text, no text over graphics or other text, etc.) or not to use horizontal scroll bars.

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[Don_HH2K]

[Antony]