The Science of Web Art, Design and Development

When I started working on the web, ten years ago, sites should be done to be visible with a resolution of 640×480px, otherwise a good part of visitors would be blocked out. As resolutions increased the minimum size increased to 800×600 and today it is believed that designing towards 1024×768 is safe.

Will this number increase in the future? Should we still concern about low resolutions? What is The ultimate answer to screen resolutions for web design?

I really don’t think the ultimate answer for screen resolutions is a number, no matter what the number is. I think the answer is a process by which websites are developed.

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I think most good web developers know how a bad browser Internet Explorer is.

Web development has an inherent difficulty because code you write is only an outline of what you want done, an intention. Is really up to the browser what is actually going to happen.

Some browsers don’t support some features and web developers should treat this with graceful degradation. Explorer is no exception.

One of the beauties of the web is that the user is in control. Browser choice and options are there to ensure that and sites should support that.

As a web publisher one want primarily to deliver information to public, not layout. The layout is support, meant to enhance the usability of the page. Not only for eye pleasure and reinforce brand indentity.
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A fluid layout for a web page is one that adapts itself to the window size, an elastic layout is one that adapts itself to text size. When nothing of this happens, the layout is said to be fixed.

A layout that Fluid and Elastic is a step towards a future with high screen resolutions

One of my great ambitions for the Z’oC Layout was to have a layout that was both fluid and elastic layout, and this is just what I have done. I completely redesigned the layout to be fluid, elastic and more reader friendly.

A layout that is both fluid and elastic means that you are able to take advantage of all screen, whatever format and resolution your public may have and, additionally, means that you can increase the text size a lot without breaking the layout.
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