[Sigia-l] Display Size

[Berthelemy, Mark (L&D)]

Hi Roger,

There is no need these days to fix your design to a screen size. There
are plently of places which show how to create fluid layouts that resize
automatically to your particular screen resolution.

See, for example:
http://particletree.com/features/an-overview-of-current-css-layout-techn
iques/

Are you also considering mobile technologies in your requirements?

Cheers,

Mark


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Mark Berthelemy
Learning Solutions Architect
Capita Learning & Development
 
Tel: 07799 408026
Skype: mark_berthelemy

-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On
Behalf Of Roger Zender
Sent: 15 February 2007 15:27
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Display Size


Apologies if this has been discussed recently, but I'm working on a
redesign of our Library's website.  The problem is the university's
template currently only allows for 800x600 resolution.  I'm hoping to
break the trend because in all of our focus groups for the redesign,
everyone stated they DID NOT like scrolling.  Also, virtually every
other library website we looked at was not bound by that width.

With this redesign we're hoping to get more information on our page, in
a more usable layout than that resolution allows.  So I'm hoping to make
a business case for this purpose, to present to the University's
marketing department.

I'm curious of your thoughts on what resolution we should be designing
for.  I know the "know your audience" idea, and being on a college
campus I think allows us a greater resolution than the current template
provides.  I'm hoping for some other (equally
substantial) reasons as to why going 1024x768 is better.  Any thoughts,
or references supporting this?

Thanks,
Roger



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