RE: FLASH: Screen size

[Sublett, Brian]

Just my two cents...


I always design for a worst case scenario: 640x480 with a 28.8-33.6 internet

connection.


After that, let the user choose:  Allow the window to be resized.


On our site, our opening splash screen is designed to fit a small monitor,

the user enters the flash site and a pop-up window opens at 640X480 with no

scrollbars (because the movie is 100% width, 100% height, exactfit), no

toolbar (using the back button screws things up in our flash movies) and no

menubar or statusbar (for pretty looks).  From there any documents that are

loaded (pdfs, docs, etc.) are opened in yet another window (to eliminate the

need for the back button).  This may initally make some people mad, but will

ensure the best visit for our users.  This is the way we want our site to be

browsed.


It's all preference.  This way isn't right for all sites.  Just this one.

Plan what you want your users to see and try to ensure that they see it the

way you meant it to be seen.


Brian Sublett

Microflex Corporation

http://www.microflex.com



-----Original Message-----

From: Alan Wilson [

lightstormjps [dot] net (mailto:lightstormjps [dot] net)

]

Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:50 AM

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject: Re: FLASH: Screen size



Hi Gang!


I have been wanting to start a thread on this very subject so I guess now is

as good a time as any to jump in. I've been reading various comments from

other people that say they don't like their monitor real-estate taken over

by a "size to fit monitor" browser window. I have also read interesting

comments that "toolbar-less" browsers "freak out" newbie web surfers..

especially if they pop open and highjack your screen! But then again, how

many "websurfers" do you think "accidentally" hit the back button on their

browsers only to find themselves at the previous site... I bet that freaks

them out too!

Then there is the resolution issue... if one is to design at 800x600 and

then view it on a small monitor, the text is tough to read.... not to

mention the opposite problems of designing for small monitors then viewing

on large ones.


I realize that these are separate but somewhat related issues, but is there

a general consensus out there on what resolution we should be designing for

and what type of browser window the user should see when clicking on that

link? Should we be designing at 800X600 and allowing for resize and with or

without toolbars? Design 640X480 with no resize? How about a message on a

simple 640x480 opening splash screen that tells them what is going to happen

when they hit the "enter site" button?

... Do not attempt to adjust your television..er, monitor.. we have complete

control.. we have control of the vertical.. we have control of the.... =)

Oops, I digress....


Then there's the issue of the "sniffers".. but that's for another thread.


Is there a formula for this confusion?

 

-- 

Alan Wilson

Lightstorm Studio

Freelance Image Design

mailto:

lightstormjps [dot] net

>

From: liamnewhaven-design [dot] net

>

Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:13:47 -0000

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: FLASH: Screen size (was: Site Check please)

> 

>> "Michael Dunn"  wrote:

>>> Maybe shrink it a bit and lock the size.

> 

>> Mark Sheppard

>> I didnt't buy a 19" monitor and set it to 1280x1024 to look at some

> 640x480

>> sites that don't resize.

> 

> 

> Hmmmmm.

> I have to say that bigger isn't always better. I'm not that crazy about

> sites that automatically take over my entire monitor (1152 x 870), nor do

I

> try to stretch 640x480 windows to make the content resize. If a site has

> been well designed then there should not be any need to resize as all of

the

> content should be legible at the original size. However it is important

that

> the resize facility be made available so that visually impaired users have

> the option of making the window larger to aid reading (this is another

> matter which deserves it's own thread).

> 

> On the other hand I do agree that 640x480 as a standard while not quite

dead

> is certainly waning.

> 

> Just my 0.02

> 

> Liam

> 

> Now trying to get those worms back into that can : )

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