new conclusion...

[coldfused]

i have tried everything i can think of..all the margins are set..noresize is set..everything is fine no matter what res i view the site..except of course(there always must be something that goes wrong)that dynamic text does not scale with the rest of the movie..for the most part it does but say if you view:

http://www.endangeredgraphics.com

at 1024/768 everything is fine..view it at 800/600 everything is fine execpt the blue endangeredgraphics text at the top is way to small..it's not scaling properly at 800/600..view it at 1280/1024 it is almost fine except the clock at the bottom is starting to move to the right..all this happening on a 17" monitor..if someone( i think it was kittin or roda, sorry can't remember) has a 21" monitor viewing at 1280/1024 with the window maximized the clock starts falling off the page in the bottom left hand corner...i could fix this by making the clock where it is flush right with the gray box that it sits in but it looks stupid at 1024/768, to much blank space at the left side of the clock..i can fix the blue text at the top for 800/600 res by making it just a bit larger..ok no problem..but what about the clock?

any ideas?

i guess i could make it flush right like i said and maybe put a small animation beside it..but if someone views at 1280/1024 on a 21" monitor the animation would fall off the screen..but that would be ok because the text would stretch to fill the space!! but my luck would be that a little piece of the animation would still show up..

shhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeshhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

carlsatterwhite@endangeredgraphics.com

 

[mcse1999]

wao u too got prob cant solve ??
i taught ur darn good on it

 

[unwanted]

Carl,
I know you're a perfectionist, and I'm not trying to change that... But at some point, you should stop worrying about how your stuff is going to look on all the possible hardware configurations out there (Macs, Pcs, monitors - remember those settings! - browsers, resolutions...), and get on with your creativity.
Unless you're prepared to write a whole bunch of detection stuff and build several versions of your sites accordingly, guess you're stuck with adopting a middle ground attitude and hoping for the best. If I like my brightness cranked up... There's nothing you can do about it!

I think it's fairly reasonable to assume, a majority of users, would, for the time being, use 17" monitors at a resolution of 800*600 to 1024*768. So I think you should work with that in mind and not worry too much about the 50 users that have 21" monitors or the ones that are still operating at 640*480. Hey, worst case, put a warning on your site: "This is best viewed at...", or even: "Sorry Netscape users, this site ain't for you!" (Like that one Luke?)

Design this new site of your's so that you're pleased with it and hope for the best! Otherwise, when you come back to it after solving all those other problems (and you won't solve all of them!), you will, as you said last night, be bored with it! Aren't you looking for reasons not to get back to work?

In all friendship,

;-)ldnewbie

 

[TulsaJeff]

Very well spoken, Oldnewbie. Ya' Gotta Love It!

 

[coldfused]

appreciated..back to work now..

carlsatterwhite@endangeredgraphics.com

 

[funkymonk]

Just to make you feel better Carl, looks fine now with 21" monitor at 1280*1024 sitting in the middle of the screen and maxed.
Also, well said Old - I have to concern myself with all that stuff when I work on my works html site. When I get home and work on mine it's just a creative thing. So long as my art displays well I don't care. I have to say it's refreshing to here some one of your experience say that as most people I have spoken to since starting web design have been so obsesive about everyone seeing it the way they want them to. roda B-)

http://www.sameplanet.co.uk

Learning is like rowing against the current. As soon as you stop, you start going backwards.

 

[WhiteTiger]

Yes!...down with netscape...

I agree with everyone here...(surprizing, 'eh?)

Personally, I suck at art, so I take up programing...and I can create art-type effects in another medium...but man, if you got the skillz, use them...I love the new design. ----------------------------------------
The Learning process is just a way to get rid of all the stupids in your head.

Now where's that cute kitten? ;-)

 

[Thryn]

Page looks good,centered and scaled (pleasing to the eye) on screen res 1600 x 1024

 

[coldfused]

i'm guessing my question would be guys is why doesn't dynamic text scale properly..even with noresize in the body tag..

carlsatterwhite@endangeredgraphics.com

 

[unwanted]

Carl, why would you want to allow resizing in the first place? Seems to me, if you do, that you're precisely allowing me to change the looks of your site, which is what you're trying to avoid, right?
IMHO, it's better to have your site cropped by the user's resizing, than to have the whole of it - not just the clock - scaled in/out of proportions.
Just resize your browser to minimum witdh and keep the full height!
Guess you better start thinking popup, if not of a non-resizable fullscreen!

;-)ldnewbie

 

[unwanted]

BTW, how'd you make this clock?
Is it one single mc including the box? Or a clock mc laying over a box in the main movie?
Also did you use Center justify(Paragraph Panel) while setting up your dynamic clock?
Just did a test... And it seems to scale better, if you do it that way!

;-)ldnewbie

 

[coldfused]

ok will look at the center justify..but i had a chance to look at it today on a couple different systems and i am happy with what i saw, so no more worries..

back to the design..

carlsatterwhite@endangeredgraphics.com