800x600 SUCK
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- Louno
so this client wants to have the website in 800x600, but the target customers are computer gamers... not like backgammon / chess / solitaire type of gamers, more like counterstrike source battlefield2 etc ...
In my opinion the majority of people arent in 800x600 anymore at least here in canada...
anyone has a survey or stats about what resolution is used the most in canada/US if i can prove them that 800x600 isnt even the norm for non gamers they might accept my 1024 design...
- shutdown0
make it 100% then it don't matter?
- ********0
true dat homey.
you might want to send him some statistics on the subject to back up your claim.
this isn't max payne of 5 years ago at 800x600. we've moved on to much higher resolution games.
- ********0
Maybe he's going for a retro look?
- anon0
never heard of designers who need a minimum dimension in order to design.
- pascii0
make it dynamic. so the size doesn't matter
- ribit0
tell him they should run a survey of their current users rather than trying to guess... or is a new site?
- heavyt0
i like the way that sites like http://www.espn.com have gone.
the most imporant stuff is in the first 800, but then there is secondary content between 800 and 1024.TR1
- Louno0
im not saying that i NEEDED a minimum size to design, im saying that 800x600 for the gaming community is too small, Also i started designing before they gave me the spec document ( which they sended me AFTER telling me that they liked my design and they didnt mention that spec doc when they asked me to design ) i did this like 1 month ago just to give them an ideal of what i could look like they said the liked it alot, and i said i would finish it when they send me the logo ( that they keep RE DOING over and over ) ....
anyways... it just suck
- jondj240
http://www.w3schools.com/browser…
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i have a question about making it 'dynamic'. does that mean that you have build your site at each resolution size and have some php that recognizes what the users monitor resolution is set at?
is that the only way?
- mg330
i like the way that sites like www.espn.com have gone.
heavyt
(Sep 29 05, 08:40)
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that is, except for the organization and heirarchy of content links on their homepage, right?
Because it is terrible. No way to distinguish items of importance, horrible color pallete for their list of links and stories.
- spiralstarez0
I think making it dynamic in the way they are talking about it here, is to make it liquid.
Defining widths in percentages versus pixels.
- jondj240
forgive me for being dumb but designing something at 800x600 is at 100% no? just like designing at 1024x768 is at 100%. I guess i am not understanding the statement.
- Louno0
dynamic = yes either percentage, usualy 100% and it just stretch depending on the resolution.
for this site, i wouldnt like that, and the site i designed IS designed to be strechable EXCEPT on the frontpage ( which is the screenshot i posted )
- jondj240
does this 'stretching' ruin type or image quality at all?
- Clear0
yeah make it stretchy if you like but make sure it can run at 800px wide.
I don't know about you, but I never have my browsers run full screen. Seems very 1990's. As if I still had a 15" monitor. My browser window probably stays around 850 or 900px wide when I'm surfing.
- Carty0
of all the viewers i get, 800x600 is less than 2%. the majority is 1024...
design accordingly... i agree with ya.
- adrian0
I agree with people like Clear...most people keep their browser windows at a size to view 800x600, and the rest of the screen is for IM, email, word, whatever. If you're used to having all thos apps visible, it's annoying to have to hide them to view a web page.
Back in the stone age when 640x80 or 800x600 was common screen res, people maxed their browsers because the screen was so small....the same doesn't necessarily hold for screen res above that.
Personally I also find sites that have gone 1024 (eg, latimes.com, huffingtonpost.com) are super mad busy. Like they would have been a lot better with less columns on a page that just scrolled longer.
But everything's relative. Depends on the audience.
- trev0
use flash and stop whining.