Screen resolutions

[turfbult]

Hello,

I have a major problem in designing my website to cater for 640x480, 800x600 AND 1024x768.

The site looks really great on 800x600, but as much as it looks good on 800x600 it looks not so good on other resolutions.

What should one do?? As far as I'm concerned there is NO WAY that it can look equally good on all the different resolutions!! Am I wrong??

Any help or tips will be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
T

Hi.....

I have this kind of experience...

I suggest u use the 800 x 600 resolution. And it is the best since most ppl using the resolution.

Of course some ppl might use other resolution.

Also, u can write javascript to prompt the user to change the resolution if not match ur site resolution.


Regards,
Mac

[Jerry Grant]

I have had a similar experience, but I can't get away with asking the user to view at different resolutions!
Why? Well, some of our customers use WebTV, yes WebTV!. You can't request them to change the screen resoloution!, and they have a smaller area available than VGA! (544 x 372 pixel).
So if you realy want to develop sites which 'Reach All', then do some testing with WebTV. You can get a WebTV emulator from developer.webtv.net.
This will then show you your design shortfalls, and where you need to address your design time for multi browser page delivery.
I use a mixture of client and server side script to find the browser and screen/browser resolution, then deliver the correct format. Some of this is handled with XSLT on the XML raw page data. This keeps the ASP work to a minimum.