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- subSTANCE
um... okay... I am a bit stressed at the moment...
I have 2 days left on a website I am creating for a client... I created the site for 1024 x 768 resolution... and when my boss went to look at the site on her labtop (1400 x 1050) it looks crazy small as would be expected... but even when she turns the resolution to 1024 it still looks much different.
why does it look all around different on a laptop as opposed to my PC? even at the same resolutions? what can be done?...
also with two days left... and still not finished of the work she wants me to do... what should I tell her!? what do I do?
was I in the wrong to create it at 1024 x 768? what the hell else would I do if not 800 x 600... blah... her res is HUGE!
- chilaquil0
wasn't there any preliminary stages where it could be checked at different resolutions?
When you're working on something, make sure you look at it in a bunch of different machines with different platforms, browsers and resolutions. That's something you do every step of the way...
Don't know what you can do now, except convince your boss that not everyone is going to look at it through the same monitor as her.
- subSTANCE0
yeah you are very right... but designing for a res of 1400 x 1050 never would have crossed my mind!
- mrdobolina0
tell your boss that if you design all of your sites for that resolution that 90% of users are going to get horizontal scroll bars.
- subSTANCE0
I COULD tell her that!... I think I need to amount a barrage of reasons why my original design is best... just for the fact I have no time left and I am swamped as it is!
- mrdobolina0
at work I still do most of my design for 800*600 because our newspapers cater towards construction contracting owners and lawyers and they arent very savvy.
- subSTANCE0
I see... mine is geared towards the biotechnology and life sciences industry... so I would think a similar rule would apply :) ...
also my site can still EASILY be viewed in 800 x 600... with all the info and text viewable... if it was not for her silly res labtop...
- Mountain0
Design with % if that sort of thing's gonna be an issue.
But, honestly, that should have been established in the pre-computer phase of your design process.
Guess you better bend over and get ready for it...
- chilaquil0
try showing her some stats of users. Nothing like in your face empirical proof.
At least if she makes you change it, she can't blame you for making it that size to begin with.
- toqueboy0
yeah...find stats for similar sites...or general computer users...
www.reinvigorate.com
for designer oriented stats.www.echoecho.com also
and yeah...resolution design is pretty much the most important aspect of design when working for web. make sure you're on it asap next time.
- 8dot30
yeah, your boss needs to wake up and realize that peoples screen are different. cant she tell that allready? does cnn not look small on her screen?
i design all my sites for 800X600 as well, every non computer person i know runs that res.
- mrdobolina0
right, most people are really unaware that they can even change their res.
- unknown0
She is going to get the same with any site she goes to with such a high res... I would'nt worry about it!
- subSTANCE0
thanks toqueboy great links! I will have to hot her with some of this
- subSTANCE0
*hit :)
- subSTANCE0
hey mrdobolina she actually DIDN'T know how too change her res... she was like "yeah... okay... so how do I do that?"... jeeez
- mrdobolina0
one for subSTANCE
zero for Boss
- chilaquil0
Jeez...
how the fuck is she your boss? Can I come be your boss instead? Can't be that hard...
- subSTANCE0
haaaa funny...
yeah she is the 'go to 972 meetings a day' kind of boss... never here... she uses her computer for THREE things... writing e-mail... word processing... and every once and a while a shitty lookin power point presentation... that is all... no more no less
- chilaquil0
ok...
forget it then. I don't want your boss's job. I hate meetings and I hate power point...