Kelly Duffy wrote:
I was wondering if anyone can give me a rough idea of the average
resolution for new Mac monitors? I hate websites that aren't Mac
friendly, I find the colours change between my PC and Mac, so I can
generally fix it up, but at the moment I have pretty much no idea what
size I should be making my websites to find a happy medium.
This is going to likely sound like a cop-out, but you should really
consider the implications of what you are asking. The whole point of the
web is to be a common distribution environment for information. The
places were that information is distributed is as varied as it gets:
* different connection speeds
* audio and Braille screen readers
* mobile phone browsers
* pda browsers
* text-only browsers
* screen resolution varying from 160x160 to 1600x1200 and others
* paper vs. screen
The above just name a few of the things you'll come across and I've not
even touched on compatibility between browsers.
So, the question you are asking is the wrong question in my professional
opinion. The real question is: "How do I design a web-page that will
render appropriately in the environment in which it is presented?"
The answer used to be, create graphics, tables, single pixel lines, set
widths, set font-sizes, etc.
The answer today is, separate out the content from the display. Make
very simple HTML pages and apply style sheets to them. I find great
success in thinking of a page as chunks of data and semantically wrap
each "element" into a <div>, so you can later refer to that div class
within the style-sheet and change the layout completely.
A great example of this is a very simple page, called the
<http://www.csszengarden.com/>, which has hundreds of different
style-sheets attached that show different views of the same information.
I suggest that you should also visit <http://www.alistapart.com/> to
learn about how style-sheets really work.
So, "how big should I make it" is not really what this medium is about
any more.
Kind regards,
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