Re: resolution issues
- From: robmog <robmog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:32:10 -0800
A lot of this may be down to my not really planning the website in any great
detail. I started playing around with Publisher because I had it installed
and before I knew it I had a website. However there does appear to be a
conflict between widescreen design and 4:3, and dpi seems to be a major
factor.
When I built the site my laptop was set at 1680x1050 and 120dpi. I basicaly
designed a page, previewed it with IE6 and then made adjustments to achieve
the required result. The published result displayed fine on my laptop when
veiwed in IE6 and the latest versions of Firefox and Opera. However, when
viewed on some other computers, particularly through firefox and opera and
safari the text became jumbled. This happened on both my partners laptop
(1024x768 96dpi) and on screenshots from other browsers at www.
screenshots.org
At your suggestion I reset my laptop to 96 dpi and when I viewed the pages
online I now also experienced the same jummbling of text. I then checked the
page settings in Publisher and these were set at 800x600. With the dpi still
set at 96 but making no other changes to the publisher files I republished
the site to the web. This solved the problem both on my partners laptop and
on the screenshots from other browsers. With my laptop still set at 96, Opera
displayed the pages correctly. Both IE6 and Firefox displayed the pages
without error but put a large white border along the bottom and right hand
side.
Of course when I set my laptop back to 120 dpi I was now experiencing the
same problems that the other computers suffered before, ie jumbled up text.
I do not have a 4:3 machine that can be set at 120dpi so I can't confirm it,
but it appears that if you design a site at 120dpi it has problems when
veiwed at 96, and if you create it at 96 then it has problems when viewed at
120 ( at least on a wide screen). I will carry out some more tests at other
resulutions and see what happens.
I don't know which browsers you have but the original site(120dpi) can be
viewed at www.nigelhenderson.com, and the republished version(96dpi) can be
found at www.test.rchenderson.co.uk if you want to see the differences for
yourself.
Interestingly I have another simpler site www.hendersonlightingdesign.com
which was designed at 120 widescreen and although there are diferences when
viewed on other browsers and resolutions, these are small and don't really
effect the overall usage of the site.
Hope some of this helps. Let me know if you need me to try anything else and
I'll keep you updated on my tests.
"DavidF" wrote:
Romob,.
I have a favor to ask. Would you answer a few questions, and try a test or
two and report back? With the increase use of wide aspect ratio screens, we
need to figure out why the Publisher HTML output is so different, and I
don't have a wide aspect screen to test.
What is the DPI setting for your laptop screen at 1680x1050? Is it 96 dpi or
perhaps 120? Did you see if changing this setting had any impact on how your
html output looked?
How do you have the Publisher document set up? Go to File > Page Setup >
Layout. Under Page Size are you using the Standard (800 X 600) setting, or a
custom setting...and if so, what is that custom setting?
Would you please try producing your Publisher HTML output at 800x600, and
perhaps 1152x864 or some other setting you can use on your laptop that gives
you the 1.33:1 ratio? How does the output vary from your 1680x1050 setting?
Save the output of each test you do for the short term. I may have some
follow up questions.
Thanks.
DavidF
"robmog" <robmog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In order to compensate for designing on a widescreen display I positioned
everything so that it was still visible when veiwed 4:3, and even allowed
for
a "favourites" menu to be open on the left side of the browser. This left
quite a large unused area on the right hand side when viewed widescreen.
Presumably the best solution would be to set both my screens to 800x600
and
actually do the design work on the 4:3 screen
"DavidF" wrote:
In addition to what Mike and Rob said, Publisher sites when produced on
wide
aspect ratio laptops can look strange. One thing that has helped in some
cases: Right click your desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced > and
change the font size to a 96 dpi setting. I would guess that you have
this
set at 120 dpi, and you may find the text size too small for normal
viewing,
but try it for the short term. Then open your Publisher file and produce
new
html files and test those.
DavidF
"robmog" <robmog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What is the best resolution setting for building publisher web sites. I
have
been designing mine on my laptop which is a widescreen running at
1680x1050.
I have also been previewing them on my 4:3 extended desktop monitor
running
at 1280x1024. They all look fine in both formats when viewed via IE6,
Opera9
and firefox. However if I view them in the same browsers on my partners
laptop which has a maximium resolution of 1024 x 768 some of the pages
fall
apart completely. I am guessing that this is a resolution problem but
oddly
if I set my 4:3 monitor to 1024 x 768 the pages all look fine. It is
somewhat
frustrating as I now have no idea what my site looks like to the
majority
of
people. (www.nigelhenderson.com if anybody would like to take a look
and
report back.)
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