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Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on April 7, 2008, 4:18 pm
Please log in for more thread options Joe Patrick wrote:
> I always thought that it was advised to have a maximum image width of
> 780 or so pixels so that your website fits into an 800x600
> resolution.
That is probably a good maximum size for an image, unless your site is a
photo gallery and you are giving away hi-res photos. (Note: image size,
not page width.)
> Whilst testing my own redesign of my website, I was in 800x600
> resolution and went to the BBC website and was surprised to see that
> I had to scroll horizontally.
Screen resolution is unimportant. Mine is 22" (1680px) wide. Do I have a
maximized browser window? No. Not hardly ever. I usually have at least
two windows of various types open side-by-side.
> Is this no longer advised by w3c (or whoever),
The W3C doesn't care a whit how wide your web pages are. A lot of us
developers/webmasters do though, and in this century, fixed width is
out. Think flexible.
http://allmyfaqs.net/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign
> or are the BBC just electing to ignore it?
Since there is no real rule, only guidelines, they can do whatever they
want.
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