DJ Website Designer Todd Donald
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DJ Website Design Considerations
About Websites, Browsers, Fonts, Flash
All websites and browsers are not created equally... When possible, I try to provide some general information which is useful for my clients or anyone designing a site for the first time.
- 1) NOT ALL BROWSERS READ CODE THE SAME, OR DISPLAY THE WEB PAGE THE SAME. A page that looks one way in IE may look entirely different on Firefox, Safari or Chrome. Even the same browsers that are different versions will produce different results. Things like text and various elements may appear bigger, smaller, stretched, misaligned, etc depending on what browser you are using to view the web page with.
- 2) NOT ALL WEBSITE EDITORS WYSIWYG SOFTWARE CREATES HTML CODE THE SAME WAY. As frustrating as it is to have web pages look different on every browser and every version of every browser, it gets even more complicated when the WYSWYG software's on the market all generate it own version of code. The safe bet is to use the most popular browsers to preview your site in. IE7 is currently the most popular and does a better job of displaying the majority of web-pages built with various code. By comparison the browser Firefox 2.0 was built to adhere to new XHTML and XHTML Strict guidelines set forth by the W3C. To make it lean and mean, they removed the backwards compatibility that IE7 has to view older web pages. Apple / MAC Safari is similar to Firefox. Google's new Chrome is sort of a blend and the new IE8 is very much like IE7, but with more security gadgets, revealing a host of problems you may not have knew existed on your site until viewed in IE8.
- 3) NOT ALL PCS HAVE THE SAME FONTS, JAVA, FLASH, ETC... It's usually best to stick to just a few basics when designing a page for a wide audience. The less fancy, the better. Things like Flash, Music, Videos, or anything outside of just a page built with HTML, .jpg and .gif images, with Arial font, may not appear correctly.
- 4) NOT ALL PEOPLE USE THE SAME MONITOR SCREEN RESOLUTIONS OR FONT SIZE. Yet making an ugly situation even worse, no two monitors are created equally and there are a huge number of different screen ratios. Some are wide, some ar not. Most web designers shoot for a centered page which has the majority of it's main objective closer to the upper left quadrant of the page. Some people have their screen resolution set low, and others high. The worst combination is used by portable notebook computer users, who typically have a strangely shaped monitor, (not following any standard ratio), they often will use a high screen resolution i.e.; 1280 X 768 to fit the oddly "squished" monitor shape, which is small by design. The higher screen resolution in essence shrinks a web-page so that more of it is seen in the squished little monitor's view. However, because increasing the screen resolution makes everything smaller, the font becomes so small it's hard to read, so Notebook users will place font settings at handicap accessibility level of say 125%... This leads to a very odd looking display of tiny web-pages and BIG TEXT and presents a big challenge to web designers and browser makers. © 2008 Article By Todd Donald
