Hello Claus!

> > Please keep in mind the viewers with smaller monitors.

> I had the same problem some time ago with my own page. I designed it
> on a 20'' monitor at the job, and to me it looked just great - until
> viewing it for the first time on a 15''. Not only that one of my
> graphics (kind of a headline) was badly misplaced, on this monitor
> it was too large, so that I was forced to sample it down somewhat.

With a 14" 1280x1024 monitor the major malfunction I usually notice 
is 'graphically rendered text' that is too small. Your text such as 
'Some graphics of mine' is at the lower limit but quite legible.

> Right now it looks ok on my own 15'' (with 800 x 600/16 bit), but I
> have no idea what it might look like on a, say 17'' or 20''. 

It will look 'larger'. :)

> Is there a rule of thumb how to make those graphics so that they
> will look ok on as many systems as possible? 

Not much you can do about it. Something that 'fits' in a 640x480 
screen will leave bunches of 'extra space' around a full size browser 
window at higher resolution. But I, and I'm sure many other people 
also, never run full screen browser window, and pretty much ignore 
the extra space if it's there.

> (If you want to take a look at the site I' m referring to, see URL

> http://www1.stuttgart.netsurf.de/~ccyrny/index/index.htm

One thing I'd suggest is stretching that background image out to 
2048. Doesn't look good when wrapping at about 100 pixels.

The following comments are stretching into HTML, further discussion 
should move to -html or -basics or wherever.

The TD WIDTH=67% -combined- with the PRE text -at- larger font sizes
and 640x480 is forcing the window to scroll. Why PRE? Suggest TT for
monospaced font and let the browser figure out the wrapping. (TD 
WIDTH=xx% is invalid anyway but that's another story. :)

Something I've never seen happen before. I'm seeing this under Win16 
with NN3 and MSIE3. That PRE text is -centering-. You html says (some 
snipped):

          <center>
         <pre>
          This page is being re-designed
          at the moment. Please, be a little
          patient until the  new design is
          finished. Thanks!
          </pre>
          </td> 

...but it is appearing as:

  This page is being re-designed
at the moment. Please, be a little
 patient until the  new design is
        finished. Thanks!

Very weird, probably doesn't 'hurt' anything, just never seen that 
happen before. I don't 'think' it should do that, PRE should not mess 
with formatting.

Have a :) day!

jim barchuk
mailto:jb(at)jbarchuk.com
http://www.jbarchuk.com

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