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Hi there! Sorry about the resolution issue.. I'm using Google's blogspot with settings not adjusted too much (only widened a few things, etc.) Any suggestions

by jwcrux 13y ago

Hi there! Sorry about the resolution issue.. I'm using Google's blogspot with settings not adjusted too much (only widened a few things, etc.) Any suggestions as to what I could do to help you read the content?

graycat 13y ago
Thanks for your reply. The situation is very common on the Web now. My 17" monitor is from NEC years ago, is razor sharp and rock solid, and I see no great reason to take time out to change from it. Besides, as another comment in this thread noted, laptops also have relatively small screens! So do tablets and phones! I know nothing about using Google's blogspot. For the Web site I'm building, all screens are just 800 pixels wide, and all my fonts are nice and large. So, on a big screen, could have a 'pile' of dozens of such windows each offset a little, and on a small screen could still see the full width easily without using horizontal scroll bars. How'd I do that? I'm a beginner at HTML but just stuffed in 800 px some places, and got 800 pixels. If in a browser I shrink a window to less than 800 pixels, then I get horizontal scroll bars. Broadly it's easy to assume that there it's reasonable to use lots of space vertically and let the user do a vertical scroll but try to minimize space used horizontally so that a user doesn't have to do a horizontal scroll just to read the text. In some cases, I just highlight the text, copy it to the clipboard, pull it into my favorite editor, and flow the text to, say, 60 characters a line. My view is, in reading, 40 characters per line has some advantages in eye movement in reading, 60 characters per line is plenty, 72 is almost too many, 80 is about the upper limit, and over 100 is too often a problem and, really, for easy eye movement in reading, too much. Heck, even when newspapers had sheet sizes big enough to cover a table top, they still kept way down the number of characters per line. But I can't tell the world how to design Web pages. If some people want, say, 300 characters per line and 20 characters per inch on the screen horizontally, then so be it.
- jzwinck 13y ago
  Your web pages with fixed width of 800px may be fairly annoying to users with high-DPI displays. Mac Retina displays are perhaps the most recent and well known, but for years some people have had displays with DPI 50-200% higher than "normal", and for these people, your 800px decision looks like handcuffs. If you look back a dozen years you'll see a number of sites that instituted fixed-pixel-width layouts, then abandoned the approach as people bought more large, high-res displays. P.S.: Yes, some operating systems and browsers now zoom in a way that this doesn't matter so much, but not all, and not without downsides.
  - graycat 13y ago
    Thanks. I don't know what to do about that yet. If they have a way just to zoom my Web pages, then they will be okay. But if they have a big screen with lots of pixels, then I don't want my Web pages taking all of that screen. It's better for the UI/UX for my pages to take less than the full screen so that my users can see some other screens while using my site.

by jwcrux 13y ago

graycat 13y ago

Thanks for your reply. The situation is very common on the Web now. My 17" monitor is from NEC years ago, is razor sharp and rock solid, and I see no great reason to take time out to change from it. Besides, as another comment in this thread noted, laptops also have relatively small screens! So do tablets and phones! I know nothing about using Google's blogspot. For the Web site I'm building, all screens are just 800 pixels wide, and all my fonts are nice and large. So, on a big screen, could have a 'pile' of dozens of such windows each offset a little, and on a small screen could still see the full width easily without using horizontal scroll bars. How'd I do that? I'm a beginner at HTML but just stuffed in 800 px some places, and got 800 pixels. If in a browser I shrink a window to less than 800 pixels, then I get horizontal scroll bars. Broadly it's easy to assume that there it's reasonable to use lots of space vertically and let the user do a vertical scroll but try to minimize space used horizontally so that a user doesn't have to do a horizontal scroll just to read the text. In some cases, I just highlight the text, copy it to the clipboard, pull it into my favorite editor, and flow the text to, say, 60 characters a line. My view is, in reading, 40 characters per line has some advantages in eye movement in reading, 60 characters per line is plenty, 72 is almost too many, 80 is about the upper limit, and over 100 is too often a problem and, really, for easy eye movement in reading, too much. Heck, even when newspapers had sheet sizes big enough to cover a table top, they still kept way down the number of characters per line. But I can't tell the world how to design Web pages. If some people want, say, 300 characters per line and 20 characters per inch on the screen horizontally, then so be it.

jzwinck 13y ago
Your web pages with fixed width of 800px may be fairly annoying to users with high-DPI displays. Mac Retina displays are perhaps the most recent and well known, but for years some people have had displays with DPI 50-200% higher than "normal", and for these people, your 800px decision looks like handcuffs. If you look back a dozen years you'll see a number of sites that instituted fixed-pixel-width layouts, then abandoned the approach as people bought more large, high-res displays. P.S.: Yes, some operating systems and browsers now zoom in a way that this doesn't matter so much, but not all, and not without downsides.
- graycat 13y ago
  Thanks. I don't know what to do about that yet. If they have a way just to zoom my Web pages, then they will be okay. But if they have a big screen with lots of pixels, then I don't want my Web pages taking all of that screen. It's better for the UI/UX for my pages to take less than the full screen so that my users can see some other screens while using my site.