I have developed a few web sites using sitespinner. Now, I am trying sitespinner pro. The first few pages are complete and good for testing. the experimental site is
http://tendercareanimalhospital.com/index1.html
Wondering what small screen viewers see. I am hoping that one would see a small top graphic instead of the regular web page graphic.

Obviously nobody on this forum bothers with small screens any more.

But, looks great mate.

Hi Postyr's right,

Jan 2009, 93% of screens in a survey by w3schools showed users with 1024x768 or higher resolution, so no need to worry about small screens unless you want to work with mobile?
Source: http://www.w3schools.com/brows...browsers_display.asp

I whizzed the screen size around and with the fixed size banner image, you do get horizontal scroll bar and lose the content to the right,

I was seeing the body content of the home page in Times New Roman - was that what you intended?

Its not the most touchy-feely of fonts and in the business hours box, is getting a bit difficult to read. Perhaps I need new glasses.

I'm not too sure how the banner image relates to the content unless they care for wild animals.

Off subject, is there any significance in the hospital being located next to a cemetry ;-) ?

Nice site, keep up the good work

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Jan 2009, 93% of screens in a survey by w3schools showed users with 1024x768 or higher resolution...

Screen size is not relevant -- it is the space available within the browser window that matters. Nearly always, this will be less than screen size. Depending on how your visitor has their browser set, it may be a lot less. Nobody does surveys of that

For this reason, I argue that there is still a place for 800 wide layout, with horizontal page centering. The narrower width makes your site more mobile friendly too, even if you take no other action to cater for mobile visitors.

With all of that being said, and, certainly not a majority has had a say, what would be the motivation for spending nearly a hundred American dollars for the capability of building a mobile site.
Doesn't seem a good way to advertise the 'usefulness' of Sitespinner Pro!

Bruceee

I was being imprecise about screen size, you're right I meant browser size which is of course always smaller.
I'd point wyalusingwillie at http://justaddwater.dk/2006/08...ize-not-screen-size/
to see the comparison between screen and browser


There is a Jakob Nielsen alertbox article about window size http://www.useit.com/alertbox/screen_resolution.html

Further research has shown that, almost all of smaller screens are maximised (no surprise) where most 1024x768's are and only some of the larger are.

I would conclude conclusion is that people will not maximise a screen if there is no need to, who wants to see acres of white space with this tiny agoraphobic 778 wide content area in the middle?

I really don't think designing for 800 wide is commercially acceptable any more. From a design perspective, you lose 30% of your screen width in comparison with designing for 1024 (1004) wide which necessitates having a longer page for the same amount of content.

Designing for such a small content area may also create the perception that you as a designer are kind of living in the past. Your company's website is in competition with every other business in the area or sector and competition for people to take the action you want is a beauty pageant to some extent.

You need to demonstrate that your company or the company you're designing for is paying attention to whats going on in the world.

Does designing for an 800 wide screen really do that today?

Jakob Nielsen does make one really good point in his article that you should design with a liquid layout that allows the screen size to shrink nicely allowing the content to reorganise itself. Fixed width banner images can tend to kill this off.

In regard of designing for mobile, theres a useful summary of screen sizes http://www.quirksmode.org/m/table.html#t52

You'd have to work out if there would be a return on investment to decide whether to make the effort to design for mobile.

I suspect an animal hospital would justify this effort especially if you can detect browser size and switch to mobile specific content pages.