Can you help with resolution issues for web?

building

What is the best way to design websites that work for the 2 resolutions 1024 and 800x600?

Apparently there are issues with use of things such as stylesheets. Apparently things like flash Banners, or 2D banners.

Apparently there are percentage issues such percentages cannot be used in a IMAGE tag ....

any ideas or recommendations...!
thanks

wolfman

Either

a) Design the site for a minimum requirement, ie 800x600. That way it'll work in any resolution including and above that, but in higher resolutions you won't take advantage of the screen space.

b) Use percentage based design. Much like Amazon. This is much harder to do though and restricts your design.

With regards to stylesheets, there are issues but they relate to the browser, as IE and Firefox (Mozilla based browesers) view them slightly differently. It's not hard to get around though.

Stylesheets, if used properly, will reduce the size of the page, and also make it easier to update/modify the look/design of the site.

Of the two options, depending upon what the site is for, I'd usually go with the first. It's much less work, and doesn't restrict your design.

building

thanks for the info. Are you saying that if designed in 800x600 this will also look ok on 1024?

wolfman wrote:

Either

a) Design the site for a minimum requirement, ie 800x600. That way it'll work in any resolution including and above that, but in higher resolutions you won't take advantage of the screen space.

b) Use percentage based design. Much like Amazon. This is much harder to do though and restricts your design.

With regards to stylesheets, there are issues but they relate to the browser, as IE and Firefox (Mozilla based browesers) view them slightly differently. It's not hard to get around though.

Stylesheets, if used properly, will reduce the size of the page, and also make it easier to update/modify the look/design of the site.

Of the two options, depending upon what the site is for, I'd usually go with the first. It's much less work, and doesn't restrict your design.

wolfman

Yeah, so if you come up with a design that's no wider than 750 pixels you should be fine. On larger resolutions (such as 1600x1200) it won't take up the whole screen (infact half the screen on 1600x1200) but it'll be fine.

building

what about images. I am told that images can get distorted if done in percentages.

wolfman wrote:

Yeah, so if you come up with a design that's no wider than 750 pixels you should be fine. On larger resolutions (such as 1600x1200) it won't take up the whole screen (infact half the screen on 1600x1200) but it'll be fine.

wolfman

No you'd still size the image in pixels just like normal. Take a look at amazon.co.uk for an example of percent based (relative) design. Depending upon your resolution, the top and the contents don't change in size, it's the body (in the middle) that contains all of the data that becomes bigger.