Optimising pages for 640x480 or 800x600

This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway.

What's the best way to design web pages that work in 640x480 or 800x600 and
above? The pages I have created look fine in 800x600 or above but my boss has
just been to a site that runs their desktops at 640x480 and has come back
with a load of comments about how rubbish it all looks. It was all great
until he went to this site and now it's all "we need to do something about".The only solution I can figure out is to create two copy of the page, e.g
page1.htm for 640x480 and page2.htm for 800x600.

Then everytime you load the page, you check the client screen resolution
from a javascript and load the correct page.

May be anybody else have a better solutions?

weichung

"Chris Podmore" <ChrisPodmore@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway.
> What's the best way to design web pages that work in 640x480 or 800x600
> and
> above? The pages I have created look fine in 800x600 or above but my boss
> has
> just been to a site that runs their desktops at 640x480 and has come back
> with a load of comments about how rubbish it all looks. It was all great
> until he went to this site and now it's all "we need to do something
> about".
I think this really comes down to pleasing your client base... at my
company we've made a decision that we just don't support anybody with a
lower resolution than 800x600... and probably soon the requirement will
be 1024x768.

If your client base absolutely cannot upgrade, then you may have to redo
everything... which sounds like a really nasty chore with no good way to
handle it.

Personally, I'd push that whoever is running machines that friggin old
that are stuck at 640x480... whew... time to upgrade!

I mean, I imagine you aren't still supporting netscape 3.0 or IE3 customers.

Lowell

weichung[MCSD,MCDBA] wrote:
> The only solution I can figure out is to create two copy of the page, e.g
> page1.htm for 640x480 and page2.htm for 800x600.
> Then everytime you load the page, you check the client screen resolution
> from a javascript and load the correct page.
> May be anybody else have a better solutions?
> weichung
> "Chris Podmore" <ChrisPodmore@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:DBA9D316-AB89-43E9-89FB-94E2586C5E31@.microsoft.com...
>>This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway.
>>
>>What's the best way to design web pages that work in 640x480 or 800x600
>>and
>>above? The pages I have created look fine in 800x600 or above but my boss
>>has
>>just been to a site that runs their desktops at 640x480 and has come back
>>with a load of comments about how rubbish it all looks. It was all great
>>until he went to this site and now it's all "we need to do something
>>about".
>
Agree. But what can do? this is the client requirement.

"Lowell Heddings" <lowell@.mindjunction.com> wrote in message
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>I think this really comes down to pleasing your client base... at my
>company we've made a decision that we just don't support anybody with a
>lower resolution than 800x600... and probably soon the requirement will be
>1024x768.
> If your client base absolutely cannot upgrade, then you may have to redo
> everything... which sounds like a really nasty chore with no good way to
> handle it.
> Personally, I'd push that whoever is running machines that friggin old
> that are stuck at 640x480... whew... time to upgrade!
> I mean, I imagine you aren't still supporting netscape 3.0 or IE3
> customers.
> Lowell
>
>
> weichung[MCSD,MCDBA] wrote:
>> The only solution I can figure out is to create two copy of the page, e.g
>> page1.htm for 640x480 and page2.htm for 800x600.
>>
>> Then everytime you load the page, you check the client screen resolution
>> from a javascript and load the correct page.
>>
>> May be anybody else have a better solutions?
>>
>> weichung
>>
>> "Chris Podmore" <ChrisPodmore@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:DBA9D316-AB89-43E9-89FB-94E2586C5E31@.microsoft.com...
>>
>>>This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway.
>>>
>>>What's the best way to design web pages that work in 640x480 or 800x600
>>>and
>>>above? The pages I have created look fine in 800x600 or above but my boss
>>>has
>>>just been to a site that runs their desktops at 640x480 and has come back
>>>with a load of comments about how rubbish it all looks. It was all great
>>>until he went to this site and now it's all "we need to do something
>>>about".
>>
>
This link will give u some better ideas.

http://webdesign.about.com/od/webdesign/a/aa080904.htm

Regards,
Jignesh Desai.

"Chris Podmore" <ChrisPodmore@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DBA9D316-AB89-43E9-89FB-94E2586C5E31@.microsoft.com...
> This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway.
> What's the best way to design web pages that work in 640x480 or 800x600
and
> above? The pages I have created look fine in 800x600 or above but my boss
has
> just been to a site that runs their desktops at 640x480 and has come back
> with a load of comments about how rubbish it all looks. It was all great
> until he went to this site and now it's all "we need to do something
about".
Thanks to everyone who replied. I think we only have a couple of clients
running at 640x480. The one client that is pushing for 640x480 only has one
person running at 640 resolution but unfortunately he is their MD and has the
final say. He's also running XP Pro.

Everything had been does for 800x600 until my boss visited this client.

Chris.

"Jignesh Desai" wrote:

> This link will give u some better ideas.
> http://webdesign.about.com/od/webdesign/a/aa080904.htm
> Regards,
> Jignesh Desai.
> "Chris Podmore" <ChrisPodmore@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:DBA9D316-AB89-43E9-89FB-94E2586C5E31@.microsoft.com...
> > This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway.
> > What's the best way to design web pages that work in 640x480 or 800x600
> and
> > above? The pages I have created look fine in 800x600 or above but my boss
> has
> > just been to a site that runs their desktops at 640x480 and has come back
> > with a load of comments about how rubbish it all looks. It was all great
> > until he went to this site and now it's all "we need to do something
> about".
>
This is probably a little OT, but he's running XP Pro in 640x480? Someone
should just show him how to increase the resolution.

Can't imagine he doesn't have any issues with other soft...

--

Sven.

"Chris Podmore" <ChrisPodmore@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:55F7E683-8986-4A39-8910-AF60B0346446@.microsoft.com...
> Thanks to everyone who replied. I think we only have a couple of clients
> running at 640x480. The one client that is pushing for 640x480 only has
one
> person running at 640 resolution but unfortunately he is their MD and has
the
> final say. He's also running XP Pro.
> Everything had been does for 800x600 until my boss visited this client.
> Chris.
> "Jignesh Desai" wrote:
> > This link will give u some better ideas.
> > http://webdesign.about.com/od/webdesign/a/aa080904.htm
> > Regards,
> > Jignesh Desai.
> > "Chris Podmore" <ChrisPodmore@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
> > news:DBA9D316-AB89-43E9-89FB-94E2586C5E31@.microsoft.com...
> > > This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway.
> > > > What's the best way to design web pages that work in 640x480 or
800x600
> > and
> > > above? The pages I have created look fine in 800x600 or above but my
boss
> > has
> > > just been to a site that runs their desktops at 640x480 and has come
back
> > > with a load of comments about how rubbish it all looks. It was all
great
> > > until he went to this site and now it's all "we need to do something
> > about".
He is "as blind as a bat" or so I'm told. He is running in 640x480 with very
large font and won't use any of the Accessibility features. I don't know,
he's a customer, what can I say...

"SA" wrote:

> This is probably a little OT, but he's running XP Pro in 640x480? Someone
> should just show him how to increase the resolution.
> Can't imagine he doesn't have any issues with other soft...
>
> --
> Sven.
> "Chris Podmore" <ChrisPodmore@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:55F7E683-8986-4A39-8910-AF60B0346446@.microsoft.com...
> > Thanks to everyone who replied. I think we only have a couple of clients
> > running at 640x480. The one client that is pushing for 640x480 only has
> one
> > person running at 640 resolution but unfortunately he is their MD and has
> the
> > final say. He's also running XP Pro.
> > Everything had been does for 800x600 until my boss visited this client.
> > Chris.
> > "Jignesh Desai" wrote:
> > > This link will give u some better ideas.
> > > > http://webdesign.about.com/od/webdesign/a/aa080904.htm
> > > > Regards,
> > > Jignesh Desai.
> > > > "Chris Podmore" <ChrisPodmore@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> > > news:DBA9D316-AB89-43E9-89FB-94E2586C5E31@.microsoft.com...
> > > > This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway.
> > > > > > What's the best way to design web pages that work in 640x480 or
> 800x600
> > > and
> > > > above? The pages I have created look fine in 800x600 or above but my
> boss
> > > has
> > > > just been to a site that runs their desktops at 640x480 and has come
> back
> > > > with a load of comments about how rubbish it all looks. It was all
> great
> > > > until he went to this site and now it's all "we need to do something
> > > about".
> > > >