Daniel Guerin
(K=7961) - Comment Date 2/23/2004
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OK, I've just placed it in a table as explained in the other thread. It looks ok from this end, I'm yet to have it tested on another monitor. Fingers crossed!
If anyone does read this thread and checks out the site, I'd appreciate if you could comment on how it displays on your resolution.
Thanks again.
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heather martino
(K=3648) - Comment Date 2/24/2004
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Hi Daniel,
I'm running a 19" monitor on a mac at 1280x1024. The front page looks fine, but I'd still suggest you make it less wide - perhaps set the table width at 800 pixels. (dont forget all the little bits of desktop real estate which get lost in window borders etc).
Looks good, but there's no links?
H:)
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Marcus Grundy
(K=266) - Comment Date 2/24/2004
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Hi Daniel,
I've just taken a look and it views fine on my setup (1024x768).
When creating webpages though, it is always advisable to build for the most widely used resolution (800x600).
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Mark M
(K=33) - Comment Date 2/27/2004
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Daniel, if this is a template from Photoshop's web photo gallery, Adobe should be taken out in the back field and put down. The code is all messed up. On OS X's Safari the result is that the photo links don't work--I can click on them and the browser acts like somethings loading...but then nothing.
The main page--the only page I could get to--has an html error at the top. If you look at the source you'll see the closing head tag followed by some table stuff followed by another closing head tag. When I fixed this up it looked a lot better, but since I was looking at a local copy I couldn't see the photos.
You said you are pretty new to this so if you'd like I can e-mail you the corrections. But I am curious--did this come straight out of photoshop?
I look forward to seeing the photos. Good luck.
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Daniel Guerin
(K=7961) - Comment Date 2/27/2004
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Thanks everyone for your replies, they've been a great help.
Mark; Thanks for your tips, I hadn't even considered mac. Most of the page was straight out of Photoshop though I did load it into Dreamweaver to include the aditional text and also to follow advice on another thread in this forum to drop the whole thing into a resizeable table. This is perhaps where the code went wrong, although up to now, all the feedback I've had from PC users is that it looks fine.
If it's not too much trouble for you, I would certainly appreciate an email with corrected code based on your ideas. My address is dguerin@panicnow.net. Only if it's not putting you out too much though!
Thanks again.
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Phillip Cohen
(K=10561) - Comment Date 2/27/2004
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Your site looks pretty nice, very nice photos too.
One thing I noticed in the above posts is mentioning the size of the screen in inches. This really as little to do with displaying a web page. The page will display the same on a 15 inch screen or a 23 inch screen or a 100 inch projection screen.
When it comes to sizing a site it is based on absolute pixel width and height. Unfortunately most web sites are designed to fit on an 800x600 pixel resolution monitor which is fairly limiting. The actual size you can work with is only 735 pixels wide which is the largest you can go on a cheap IMAC computer without causing a horizontal scroll bar to appear. You can go to about 760 wide for a PC if you don't care about IMACs. Scrolling vertically is not a bad thing and is considered normal, but horizontal scrolling is not good.
When you make a website you should try to set your table sizes in percent so that it will expand to the size of your screen and not leave any empty areas. If you use fixed table sizes you will have total control over how it looks but if you design it for the low res screen, people on higher resolution screens will see lots of empty space on one side or the other depending how you have your table aligned.
This is a site I built for my camera club. It will fit on an 800x600 screen but will also expand as needed for higher resolutions.
http://www.sbccphoto.org
If you get creative and use table background images you can have expanding graphics as well. This can be seen in the header with the pixelated RGB pattern and film sprocket holes.
Have fun,
Phil
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Ciprian Ilie
(K=13571) - Comment Date 3/15/2004
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Looks ok on 1024 x 768 Daniel and even better on 1280 x 1024.
Most people nowaday I think would work on 1024 x 768.
The good web design guide would tell you to cater for all resolutions and base your design around 800 x 600.
If your website supports php I suggest you try SPGM http://spgm.sourceforge.net/ (A tad nicer than the PS html templates and easier to maintain)
Regards,
Ciprian
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