Forum: Community Center


Subject: What's up with resolution??

pizazz opened this issue on Jun 18, 2003 ยท 18 posts


layingback posted Wed, 18 June 2003 at 10:30 PM

tutone 1234: " The site was re-designed for 1024 x 768 resolution." Are you nuts? Sorry but designing for 1024 means that you have to have a window display > 1024 (due to window ornamentation). I do (1280) but why would I run a browser FULL-SCREEN? But how many laptops do? But more importantly, computer interface design - and heck, even 19th century newspaper design - has long held that humans have greater problems reading the longer the line length! It's hard to track on one line all the way across. That's why newspapers have columns! Newspaper columns. It's worse on a computer screen than it is on a page for a whole bunch of reasons. But you've made it wider than any book. So you've designed a FORUM to be harder to reader quickly, easily, rapidly and accurately. Yeesh! Even if you had a NEED to make it 1024 wide, you wouldn't make the text column part 800+ wide. If you look at other popular Forum software out there you'll find most hover around 800 wide, but the actual text column area is much, much smaller - in the 450 - 550 range mostly, some even less than that. I still can't believe that quote. It was a joke, right???? It has to be a joke! Odd sense of humour though...... So the header overhanging the right side of the right menu bar was presumably intended too.