Hi David you have to write your name and the title PAW on the side and not on top of the picture or use a smaller font for all if you want to use a height of 500 pixel for images and that border without making users scrolling. You can not assume what button and font size users have, just leave a bit reserve for 1024x768.
Your test page fits exactly here with 1280 x 960 pixel setting and large fonts, it will be too large for 1024x768. greetings Markus >>-----Original Message----- >>From: David Mann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 12:25 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: PAW - "Clouds at Lindis Pass" >> >> >>I made some spare time and had a really quick first cut at improving >>the page. What I really need to do is get away from the computer and >>start over with pencil & paper. >> >>This is just a static file for testing purposes. I've completely >>removed the outer border, lightened up the background and enlarged >>the picture to 500 pixels height (it'll easily fit within 1024x768, >>including the remaining border). For reference, the photos on my old >>site are 600px high and these will also fit... if the browser has >>small buttons. I may go to 600px if the file sizes don't become too >>large. >> >>http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/temp/temp.html >> >>For comparison the old one is still at: >>http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/printsdb/view.php?print_id=96&t=PAW >> >>I think it's a little better but it still needs a lot of work. The >>info stuff at the bottom is annoying me now, and I'll need to fiddle >>with the grey as it's still a bit dark. I'd really like to keep at >>least some kind of border to separate the picture from the >>background. But that's unlikely to be coloured, and will probably be >>even smaller than what I've done today. >> >>Bear in mind that I want the same basic design to work for portrait, >>landscape and panoramas so it's not going to be easy. >> >>I had a look at the links you sent and they all have their ups & >>downs... but I certainly don't need convincing about neutral >>backgrounds. That was the first of my original design decisions >>(then I went and put in those coloured borders, sigh... that was >>related to my picture framing). >> >>My old PAW index (link too long and my mailer will munge it) is >>something simple I slapped together and I don't actually like it >>myself. My new PAW index is a little more polished but now I think >>that background is too dark as well. If you strip the "&mode=PAW" >>bit off the URL you'll see the "gallery" view which is a different >>way of doing much the same thing but you don't get the info. Please >>note the PAW mode was done specifically for PDML who I assumed would >>like to see more technical information than the general public would. >> >>Cheers, >> >>- Dave >> >>http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ >> >> >>
