[Sigia-l] Display Size

[Roger Zender]

Mark,

We are considering mobile technologies, but we really couldn't find  
anyone in our focus groups that actually use them yet.  Which makes  
me think - do we build it and hope they come, or do we wait for a  
real need?

Roger

On Feb 15, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Berthelemy, Mark ((L&D)) wrote:

> 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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