Best screen size for all

[darrenforward]

Just starting to get to grips with publisher to design a web site.

There is lots of chat about screen resoloutions, i was just wondering
is it best to design for 800*600 or 1280*1024. There must still be
some people with old 15 CRT, and quite a lot of people with big tft.


Any help given very much appreciated.


Thanks

Darren

 

[Mary Sauer]

Publisher can make adequate web pages. Get started here:
Publisher - Web Publications
Articles on Publisher web design
Using Publisher for web sites
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/articles/category/1922.aspx

 

[Ed Bennett]

We in upper management don't say "squashed over to the left", we say,
left justified to ease the eyes when reading from left to right.

Isn't that why windows have size handles?

***I*** decide how I want to view my content.

 

[Bob - Australia]

Squashed to the left, NUTS, I simply use the <centre> command in the top of
the code and all is nicely centred.

 

[Erika]

Publisher can make adequate web pages.

What Margolotta said: " ... please, I implore you, drop this silly idea
of using Publisher for web design - use FrontPage, if you must - or
Dreamweaver (may it rest in peace) or GoLive! Better yet, learn HTML and
code it by hand."

I second that.

Why make a barely adequate web page when you can learn to make a good
page? Use the right tool for the job. There are hundreds of excellent
sites on the internet that will teach you how to make a simple web page
in HTML and there are several free programs that you can use.

To get started remember Google is your friend.

 

[darrenforward]

Thanks for the help i understand your point about Publisher. On the
point of free programs could you give me a clue which ones you had in
mind.

Thanks Very Much

Darren

 

[Miles Hayler]

I, personally, wouldn't use Publisher for web design - it generates horribly
inefficient code and often does bizarre things when published (trust me, when
I arrived at my new job I spent months "adjusting" the layout that looks fine
in Pub, but godawful in IE. I code in Editplus but each to their own).

If you do want to use Publisher, go ahead. I would have said that 1024x768
is probably the most common resolution at the moment.

That said, if you learn a bit of basic HTML coding, you can design your
pages to be scalable (column widths as percentages rather than absolute
values), and get a web page that'll load faster and be easier to edit in the
future.

 

[Miles Hayler]

Check out Editplus2 for basic HTML coding with an instant preview.
My personal favourite, but only because it was so much trouble previewing a
page from notepad!

There are plenty of alternatives to MSPub depending on what you want.
Macromedia's Dreamweaver will probably cost but is excellent for complex,
scary web design, but there are plenty of free web design tools out there.

Remeber what Erika said - "To get started remember Google is your friend."

Anyone else got any favourite HTML coding software they's recommend?


Miles