so, i'm creating a webpage... and my simple question is...

[onza]

what do you guys run your screen area size or aka resoulution size.

cause i have a background at 800x600 cause that is universal, but i wonder if i should at least up it to 1024x768..

or is there a way html code that will tell it to change to 800x600 if your desktop size is at that size and so forth if it was 1024x768?

hmmm lmk

onza

 

[notfred]

I run all my machines at 1024x768 or 1280x1024.

If I use a background iamge on webpages, I make it a small repeating pattern, so it wont look stupid at resolutions up to 2048x1536 or higher...

 

[onza]

Originally posted by: notfred
I run all my machines at 1024x768 or 1280x1024.

If I use a background iamge on webpages, I make it a small repeating pattern, so it wont look stupid at resolutions up to 2048x1536 or higher...

notfred- how small ??

 

[notfred]

As small as possible. If I jsut want something like alternating light and dark gray lines in the background (think TV scanlines) it'll be 1 pixel wide by 2 pixels tall. If the background is more complicated, it will be larger.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: onza
what do you guys run your screen area size or aka resoulution size.

cause i have a background at 800x600 cause that is universal, but i wonder if i should at least up it to 1024x768..

or is there a way html code that will tell it to change to 800x600 if your desktop size is at that size and so forth if it was 1024x768?

hmmm lmk

onza

You can use Javascript to detect user's screen resolution (have it set a variable)... upon an ENTER SITE splash page... use the variable set as reference to load the corresponding page/image thereafter. This cannot be done using straight HTML.

Check irt.org's JS FAQ pages for details...

BTW, 800x600 should be the standard size to code for nowadays if you go the static route. That's about 770 pixels across considering a browser's chrome.

 

[onza]

<---- has no experience with java :-/

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: onza
<---- has no experience with java :-/

Javascript is different from Java. JS is as simple as stealing code from the above-mentioned link and putting it in your HTML page. Give the FAQs a look... you may even find other helpful things there if you're really into all this customization anyway...

Java, on the other hand (java applets in the web context) can be seen as a much more difficult programming language to learn and is usually interactive. Javascript is simple client-side stuff (browser does the work) so you don't really have to understand it as long as you can find the script you're looking for.

 

[Cerb]

640x480, and assume everyone else is, too.
http://www.doddstech.com
not hard to do it. An EM here and an EM there.

For the image, just make it so that the image only repeats vertically (or is fixed) and the content does not go the right of it. Even IE 6 should be able to manage that.

 

[Kevin]

Just optimize it for 800x600 resolutions. When I make a site, I usually use a tabe width of 775, which just fits when the screen is maximized on an 800x600 resolution. Everything higher, the page is centered and is highly readable...

 

[dquan97]

Javascript is mostly using a premade code, customizing it for your own purposes, then pasting it as your own code.