Comments on: StephenGrote.com Version 2 Launch http://aarronwalter.com/2006/11/27/stephengrotecom-version-2-launch/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:37:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Aarron http://aarronwalter.com/2006/11/27/stephengrotecom-version-2-launch/#comment-62 Aarron Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:08:21 +0000 http://www.aarronwalter.com/2006/11/27/stephengrotecom-version-2-launch/#comment-62 Thanks for checking out the site, Jeremy. You have a good point, that monitor resolution and actual canvas space within a browser window are not the same. Because I am using Mint and the Window Width pepper (http://www.shauninman.com/post/heap/2005/10/21/mint_example_pepper_window_width), I can actually research what my safe space will be for the vast majority of my viewers. I still found that 90% of visitors had their browser scaled large enough to accommodate the design. That's the most reliable research one can do when planning the design of a site. Of course, the User Agent 007 pepper also gives useful data, but the window width pepper is more definitive. Thanks for checking out the site, Jeremy. You have a good point, that monitor resolution and actual canvas space within a browser window are not the same. Because I am using Mint and the Window Width pepper (http://www.shauninman.com/post/heap/2005/10/21/mint_example_pepper_window_width), I can actually research what my safe space will be for the vast majority of my viewers. I still found that 90% of visitors had their browser scaled large enough to accommodate the design. That’s the most reliable research one can do when planning the design of a site. Of course, the User Agent 007 pepper also gives useful data, but the window width pepper is more definitive.

]]> By: Jeremy http://aarronwalter.com/2006/11/27/stephengrotecom-version-2-launch/#comment-61 Jeremy Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:50:21 +0000 http://www.aarronwalter.com/2006/11/27/stephengrotecom-version-2-launch/#comment-61 I like the look and the feel of the site, its beautiful! The only thing I don't totally agree with is the width you've chosen. I am viewing the site on a monitor with a resolution of 1024 x 768 but I do not like to have my browser maximized to see the entire site. Screen Resolution tells you very little about user habits. I think if you do a little more research you will find that people with 1024x768 and higher resolution tend to surf with there browser view port at a size other than maximum(this comes from observing my own daily habits as well as people around me). For fixed width sites I tend to stay around 800px wide, maybe 850px if I absolutely must. If you want to go bigger than that I would suggest a more fluid layout, that is one that can accommodate the larger view port but doesn't require it to be able to see all content on the page. Just my 2 cents, J I like the look and the feel of the site, its beautiful!

The only thing I don’t totally agree with is the width you’ve chosen. I am viewing the site on a monitor with a resolution of 1024 x 768 but I do not like to have my browser maximized to see the entire site. Screen Resolution tells you very little about user habits. I think if you do a little more research you will find that people with 1024×768 and higher resolution tend to surf with there browser view port at a size other than maximum(this comes from observing my own daily habits as well as people around me). For fixed width sites I tend to stay around 800px wide, maybe 850px if I absolutely must. If you want to go bigger than that I would suggest a more fluid layout, that is one that can accommodate the larger view port but doesn’t require it to be able to see all content on the page.

Just my 2 cents,

J

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