[WEB4LIB] Pixel sizes for web pages

[Leonard Will]

In article <4352FDF71B0ED311AF1E00805F31581503DC1E at pdcwnpl.wnpl.alibrary
.com>, on Wed, 18 Aug 1999 at 13:59:22, Barbara Brattin <URL: mailto:bbr
attin at wnpl.alibrary.com> writes
>I'm 
>interested in hearing from all you webmasters- what size pixel are you 
>designing your pages for? Why? Does anyone really know what the new 
>standard is? Thanks for your help!

This problem only arises if you need to have large images, more than 600
pixels wide, on your site. For the really useful information - text -
HTML is perfectly capable of adjusting to fit into whatever size of
screen happens to be used. You need to be sure to express widths of
tables, etc., in relative (e.g. percentage) terms rather than absolute
sizes. You will not have full control over the appearance of the page,
but it's not too difficult to design it so that it is clearly
understandable at different widths. The appearance will in any case
change if the user changes the font size.

I use a 17" monitor at 1152 x 864 pixels, and I find it irritating to
see pages that occupy the middle half of my screen with wide blank
margins on either side, They often have text forced into narrow columns,
requiring much more vertical scrolling than would be necessary if HTML
had been used properly.

Leonard Will

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