"Stephen" wrote in message
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:32:19 -0500, Dan in comp.graphics.apps.photoshop wrote:
When formatting images for the web is there a common screen resolution to keep in mind?
I’m assuming the factory setting on my monitor is the common one for those with new monitors.
1024×768?
Well, that’s a loaded question.
If one has the above resolution, never assume that they have a browser viewport at that size. Most users don’t use a fully expanded browser.
So, 800 x 600 px is a little large for an image in my view, broadband not withstanding.
I generally use 550px x porportionate height when doing an image gallery — That is for each individual image.
In terms of other sizes, it depends where you’re putting them on the web page. If you’re interleaving pictures throughout the copy, then I would
make them smaller. I would discuss this with the client, giving them the pros/cons of larger/smaller sizes.
Thumbnails sizes that I use, are 100px x porportionate height. At that size the thumbs are generally large enough to see required detail, yet small in file size.
the last two sites I made for clients both asked for sites that they did not have to use any horiz scrolling, one uses a laptop the other an old desktop. So I used tables to keep the margins from moving on window resize.Her monitor is old and curved so she thought I had distorted the photos!
When designing I assume the worst 800×600, most users never change the defaults!!
(table is 700 px wide for page frame + navigation bar at left maybe 100 px)
My clients have a very hard time understanding the layout limitations of the web, browser issues, font style choices, and that the site will look different on each monitor, layout, screen size, the colors, that the type moves when you resize the window etc.
I spend an awful lot of time explaining why certain things just won’t fly….
FWIW a bunch of DW/Flash sites I go to have completely illegible tiny tiny text which is NOT resizable for the user, and many times the fixed layouts I cannot see the bottom of the pages and they neglect scroll bars in the designs, very annoying. The pages do not resize thus preserving the nice artistic layout but at expense of viewers like me who just cannot see it at all.
Not to mention the site should be viewable on a cell phone….
OK the bad news is my client loves what I made for her and is referring me business.
And I am not a real web designer and the last print job I messed it all up cause I don’t know Illy………….My blacks are mud brown and the magenta is purple. I made the web site in RGB and then she needed it in print stuff. I need to farm this stuff out to a contractor, like me make the design and graphics and give the actual page build to someone else…
