800 x 600 web page from psd

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Craig Jansen
Jul 9, 2004
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I have been told in an earlier post that a java script may be the best way to add to my web page to enable it to be viewed full page whatever the user’s monitor res is set to.
Is this the case ?
Of so does anybody have one .
Or if there is abetter solution please let me know.

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Erik Muna aka PetFish
Jul 9, 2004
I don’t think it’s a very good idea to use Java since some browsers don’t come with the ability to read it so people will have to d/l the plugin for their browser and blah blah blah. Just use tables with width set to 94% to 100% and it’ll resize itself to however big the window is and whatever resolution the monitor is set to.


Erik Muna
Freelance Web Design & Graphic Arts
www.erikmuna.com

"Craig Jansen" wrote in message
I have been told in an earlier post that a java script may be the best way to add to my web page to enable it to be viewed full page whatever the user’s monitor res is set to.
Is this the case ?
Of so does anybody have one .
Or if there is abetter solution please let me know.

MR
Mike Russell
Jul 9, 2004
"Craig Jansen" wrote in message
I have been told in an earlier post that a java script may be the best way to add to my web page to enable it to be viewed full page whatever the user’s monitor res is set to.
Is this the case ?
Of so does anybody have one .
Or if there is abetter solution please let me know.

Erik Muna wrote:
I don’t think it’s a very good idea to use Java since some browsers don’t come with the ability to read it so people will have to d/l the plugin for their browser and blah blah blah. Just use tables with width set to 94% to 100% and it’ll resize itself to however big the window is and whatever resolution the monitor is set to.

My suggestion was to use JavaScript (not java), to determine the client screen resolution and select which image to download on that basis.

The nice thing about this is the browser does not need to do a resize, and the image can be totally optimized for the target display size.; For example, the images may be sharpened to more closely match the final display rez.

Here is a link an examples:
http://javascript.internet.com/user-details/resolution-image .html

In case the link is broken, here is a code originally posted by Gareth Church on comp.lang.javascript:

function redirectPage() {
var url640x480 = http://www.fitzgeraldmenswear.ie/main_blah.html; var url800x600 = "http://www.fitzgeraldmenswear.ie/main.html"; var url1024x768 = "http://www.fitzgeraldmenswear.ie/main_s.html";

if (screen.width < 800) {
window.location.href= url640x480;
}else {
if (screen.width < 1024) {
window.location.href= url800x600;
} else { //screen size of 1024×768 or larger
window.location.href= url1024x768;
}
}


Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net
EM
Erik Muna aka PetFish
Jul 9, 2004
It’s a good script and solutiong, don’t get me wrong, but there are many people who surf in a non-maximized window so even if they are at 1024×768 the window they are viewing may be smaller. I just do my web pages optimized for 800×600 anyway since it’s much less of a headache than worrying about stuff like this… I only wish more people would go to 1024×768 so I could expand my designs more but still 25% to 30% of surfers are still at 800 but it’s slowly going down.


Erik Muna
Freelance Web Design & Graphic Arts
www.erikmuna.com

"Mike Russell" wrote in message
My suggestion was to use JavaScript (not java), to determine the client screen resolution and select which image to download on that basis.
The nice thing about this is the browser does not need to do a resize, and the image can be totally optimized for the target display size.; For example, the images may be sharpened to more closely match the final
display
rez.

Here is a link an examples:
http://javascript.internet.com/user-details/resolution-image .html
AS
alan smithey
Jul 10, 2004
Please read this and it will all start to make sense to you: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/liquid_web_design/

"Craig Jansen" wrote in message
I have been told in an earlier post that a java script may be the best way to add to my web page to enable it to be viewed full page whatever the user’s monitor res is set to.
Is this the case ?
Of so does anybody have one .
Or if there is abetter solution please let me know.

EM
Erik Muna aka PetFish
Jul 10, 2004
"There is an unspoken rule in print which states that text should not exceed four inches in width on a page."

Yet their site that I copied this from the text on my screen is about
8.5 inches wide, my res is 1600×1200, so if you don’t practice what you
preach how can we take it seriously? The only way to ensure this rule is adhered to is to use a fixed-width page.

Anyway, I read until I came across this and thought it was funny, then I stopped. There are always going to be debates about web design and everyone is right so it’s no big deal, I just thought this was quite hypocritical.


Erik Muna
Freelance Web Design & Graphic Arts
www.erikmuna.com

"alan smithey" <(nospam)> wrote in message
Please read this and it will all start to make sense to you: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/liquid_web_design/

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