MikeJ opened this issue on Nov 17, 2000 ยท 27 posts
Varian posted Sun, 19 November 2000 at 10:57 PM
a sure-fire way to make a background image fill an entire page, regardless of the viewer's screen resolution, without doubling over and without causing scroll bars to appear on the horizontal? Basically, what Bloodsong said. Currently, I'd suggest building border background images at least 1600 pixels wide. That size will keep you safe with the vast majority of monitors for some time yet. Also, consider contricting your page-width. Who wants to read columns that are 1024 pixels wide anyway? It's easier on the eyes to read text with shorter-width columns...which is why magazines print in columns, not text all the way across a page. I also agree with Bloodsong regarding tables. Tables are good. Tables are your friend. You need tables. And definitely use image size tags, whether in a table or not. They help everything load faster. And along with Bloodsong, I'd suggest skip frames, Java, dancing cursors and other gizmos. Navigation frames are not bad if your code is pristine and a visitor won't get locked into them when they try to leave your site. For starting out, skip 'em. People are going to visit your site for your content, not Flash. And again, as Bloodsong said, I too would recommend AOLPress (formerly NaviPress). It is an excellent, non-intrusive WYSIWYG HTML editor that permits you to tinker with the code directly without needing to hassle with every detail all the time. It'll help keep your tags nested properly, and it makes it so easy to toss a page together. I call it non-intrusive because unlike FPE/Dreamweaver and other WYSIWYG editors, AOLPress doesn't stuff your code with a lot of garbage. The worst it does is toss in a few non-breaking spaces at a whim, but they're easy to remove with a search/replace on the code side. AOL hasn't updated the program in years, but it's still keeping pace with HTML 4.0 quite well. Now, Bloodsong didn't mention one item that I'll add. MSIE and Netscape are NOT the only browsers that people are using, so for best results, don't plan a site around what "works okay" for those browsers. Just stick with HTML standards, and your pages will work for all browsers. More info: http://www.webstandards.org/ Okay, so I get to repeat everything Bloodsong said and only add one thing. But, isn't this a brilliant piece of writing? ;D Bloodsong -- absolutely I love your stuff! And I'm honored you like mine, because you're one of my "heroes" out here in 3D Land. :) Yes, I've got Poser (2 and 4), and I've previously downloaded your swan/cygnet models. Just haven't used 'em yet. But I love the morphs you've done, such as for the lion and wolf. It's sheer genius. Of course, that also applies to the whole idea of Dragon Factory as well. I was really into dragons about 20 years ago. Could've used DF then...if I'd had a computer and Poser 4 and Vue d'Esprit 3 then, too, of course! :)