When I was at my sister's house for Christmas, some of my familly was commenting that they liked my new page design because it was easier to read. When I saw one of their machines I realized why, they use a fairly low resolution (something in the 800 x 600 vicinity.) I know my mother uses this same resolution. Even on a 17 inch monitor this leaves little screen real estate to work with. Add in all the side and top menu bars that Windows brackets you with and the situation is even worse. Some of our pages are reduced to very narrow columns of text snaking down the right hand side of the browser window. Since most of us don't have lots of links on the left hand side (which I guess was the point of all that space - I mean beside the fact that I like a little blank space on a page) maybe we should have the main text take up most of the page. On a big monitor at a higher resolution this can make the text column too wide (of course you can just make the browser window smaller to fix this,) but for most people it is probably better. I've noticed some other bloggers moving toward this style. Like the queen of bloggers herself, megnut.
This sort of cosmetic change is very very simple. Let me know if anyone has any thoughts on this.
I run Windows/IE5 800X600 on a fifteen inch monitor and have recently even added the google toolbar to my screen and I think its ok. Although df's yesterday link, mrbellarsneighborhood.com, got me thinking about some design ideas for NOLA that I have toyed with for a long time but the bellar site is way too slow(I think the standard for any site dealing predominately in words should be that it responds well to the 56k modem) and anyway I mostly need to concentrate on day to day word production more than page design, but maybe down the road I could hire you to punch up my design.
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This sort of cosmetic change is very very simple. Let me know if anyone has any thoughts on this.
- jim 12-30-2000 4:28 pm
I run Windows/IE5 800X600 on a fifteen inch monitor and have recently even added the google toolbar to my screen and I think its ok. Although df's yesterday link, mrbellarsneighborhood.com, got me thinking about some design ideas for NOLA that I have toyed with for a long time but the bellar site is way too slow(I think the standard for any site dealing predominately in words should be that it responds well to the 56k modem) and anyway I mostly need to concentrate on day to day word production more than page design, but maybe down the road I could hire you to punch up my design.
- jimlouis 12-30-2000 9:18 pm [add a comment]