Re: Screen Resolutionsand Web Design

2005-04-28 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:17 +0800, Shay Telfer wrote: > >I'm not worried about mobile phones and PDAs for most of the people > >who'd be accessing our sites, they're just made for an average home > >user, some specifically targeting the elderly and not particularly > >technologically knowledgable,

Re: Screen Resolutionsand Web Design

2005-04-28 Thread Steven Tan
I agree on what Onno suggested. Web design nowadays is much more than creating layouts to fit into one device/screen. It's about presenting information to any devices that is Internet-enabled. (and that includes the Internet fridge!!) HTML/CSS is definitely the future to go for web desi

Re: Screen Resolutionsand Web Design

2005-04-28 Thread Shay Telfer
I'm not worried about mobile phones and PDAs for most of the people who'd be accessing our sites, they're just made for an average home user, some specifically targeting the elderly and not particularly technologically knowledgable, or for specific clients to access form work. Wouldn't the elder

Re: Screen Resolutionsand Web Design

2005-04-28 Thread Kelly Duffy
Thanks very much for that. I'll definately try the Firefox plugin you suggested. That should make life a fair bit easier. Kind regards, Kelly On 4/28/05, Steven Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The resolution is dependent on what kind of monitors you are running. The 20" > LCD (Apple brand) ha

Re: Screen Resolutionsand Web Design

2005-04-28 Thread Kelly Duffy
Sorry, I should have specified a bit more. My real issue at the moment is monitor size only. I'm by no means a web programmer, my clients have very basic sites, and CSS isn't really an option. I am currently playing around with it, and I love the examples at www.csszengarden.com however I'm not th

Re: Screen Resolutionsand Web Design

2005-04-28 Thread Steven Tan
The resolution is dependent on what kind of monitors you are running. The 20" LCD (Apple brand) has a max resolution of 1680 x 1050 pixels, 17" iMac has a max resolution of 1440x900 and the iBook only supports up to 1024x768. Most monitors nowadays "should" support at least 1024x768, but you ca

Re: Screen Resolutionsand Web Design

2005-04-28 Thread Onno Benschop
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

Screen Resolutionsand Web Design

2005-04-28 Thread Kelly Duffy
Hi everyone, I am a graphic/web designer, I use a PC at work and a Mac at home. I have a pretty high end PC at work, and a 4 year old G4 at home. The monitor I bought with my Mac for years ago is very high resolution, compared to my current PC monitor. I was wondering if anyone can give me a roug