design convention

[seanbo]

i'm designing a website that has a central column of content. this content is a set width, and as high as you like. i'm going to assume evryone who visits the site has at least an 800x600 screen. how many pixels should i leave for the edge of the browser window and a vertical scroll bar? is there a conventional space to leave, or is it just down to my best judgement? it's 760px wide at the moment (leaving 40px), but i reckon i could probably get away with a bit bigger.

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[cian]

No i'd use 760px as the max. You probably could go a little higher but i recommend sticking to where you are now.





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[EdwardMartinIII]

I'd avoid, if at all possible, any solution that requires a browser width setting.

If your content REQUIRES a certain minimum width to display, then just let that do what it does, but it's safest to assume that you have no control over the user's browser settings and assume you have no easy way to determine it.

Reality check: Is your browser right now set to full screen? Mine's sure not and any site that either grabs my browser and resizes it, or hinges its usability on my browser width annoys me. Unless I am forced to use that site for some nefarious reason, I will probably never willingly visit it again.

A different perspective, perhaps.

Cheers,


Edward

&quot;Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!&quot; -- inventor of the cat door

 

[mwolf00]

One other thing to consider is printing - anything much more than a width of 600 can cause the right side of the page to be lost...

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build better and bigger idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rick Cook (No, I'm not Rick)

 

[tgreer]

Aren't there CSS &quot;print&quot; styles? I remember reading about those, and setting page breaks in a long-ago site. Any pointers to a good site discussing this aspect of CSS?

Thomas D. Greer

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[clarkin]

Yep, keyword search this forum for [tt]print version css[/tt].



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