16 Oct
2014
16 Oct
'14
12:57 a.m.
Meh,
A lot of knee jerk reactions in the thread which is sad. One purpose of
setting a dark (no not a flashing GIF as lisi slippery-sloped me into
earlier) is to give the page more of a "piece of paper" feeling. With a
darker background, a crazy wide monitor the site focuses the user on the
contents of the page, and on a narrower monitor it will just barely show
up, or not at all.
About a year ago I developed a queryable database for biologists, and I
used this method, a fixed width, and a clear 'page' to it. I think it looks
good, is extremely functional, and isn't full any modern design
http://pogo.ece.drexel.edu/about.php
I was alluding to something along the lines of that website.
On 15 October 2014 20:38, Dan Youngquist <dan(a)homestead-products.com> wrote:
On 10/15/2014 05:15 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
Yeah it is pretty bad, trouble is I don't
know what to do about it. I'm
also not sure why it is coming out that way in the first place; on my
system (granted not ultra-widescreen but still 16:9) I only have a tiny
white border.
Michael's screenshot is 2560 pixels wide. The best solution is for those
with screens that wide to simply make their browser window a little
narrower
if they don't want to look at all the empty white space. They can't
reasonably expect every website to render perfectly at that kind of screen
width.
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