Embarassing question about photos...

[Brightbelt]

Hi,
I should know the answer to this question as I've been fooling with webs
for years, but...

I discovered that since many new (flat screen) monitor sizes are out, my web
photos appear stretched on some browsers, and not necessarily widescreen
monitors either. This site actually looks fine on a widescreen.

Now, I've published this web www.westwindentertainment.com from my
widescreen monitor recently, but I did NOT create it on my widescreen and I
never resized any photos either.

I think the monitor I saw this on might have been (I'm guessing) a 17"
monitor and the resolution might have been 1024 X 768 (stretched), but I
can't be sure. And the photos all seemed stretched.

And this site looks fine on smaller laptops, at least it shows fine on the
13" Macbook.

Could anyone help me make some sense of this? How do I preview for different
browser sizes from within Frontpage?

I appreciate any assistance or help on this - it's embarassing to ask this
question in the first place,....Frank B.

 

[Ronx]

All the pictures look OK to me.
Monitor size has little to do with how a web page is presented. It is
all down to how the monitor is manufactured and set up.
Most LCD monitors give the best performance at their "natural"
resolution - for *my* 17" (4x3 aspect ratio) monitor that is 1280x1024,
for *my* 15" laptop (4x3 aspect ratio) that is 1024x768. A widescreen
monitor at its natural resolution will have more pixels along the width
- say (don't quote me - I do not have access to a Widescreen monitor)
1600x1024.

It is up to the users to set up their monitors correctly, and to use
graphics cards that support widescreen.

If a wide screen monitor is forced into a 4x3 aspect ratio resolution,
then images and text will be distorted, since the pixels widthwise will
be bigger than they should be.

To preview in different browser sizes, use File->Preview in Browser, and
select the size you wish to use.

 

[Corey Bryant]

I did not see any pictures on the URL that was posted. Make sure though you
are not using percentages to define your height / width attributes if
applicable. This could cause come distortion

 

[.._..]

LCD (Flatscreen) monitors have a "native" resolution. If you run the
desktop display at any other resolution you will get a screwed up display as
it makes compromises with the video card output to get the data up there.
Espectially if you change the ratio much.

Find out what your native resolution is (in the manual) and set your desktop
to that, chances are the problem will go away.

If you are having trouble seeing the screen at native resolution, mess with
the windows accessability settings to increase font, etc. Or just get a
monitor that suits your eyesight.