Re: History of S-100 Board company Industrial Micro Systems (IMS)

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:34:05 -0700 (PDT), monahanz
<monahan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks guys, I'm making changes as they are coming in. Don?t worry
about comments. At my age/experience I'm pretty thick skinned. I
rather get things right.

I'm still thinking what to do about the Index page.
First on width. I'm inclined to stick with a 1000 px width simply
because this allows more detailed and complete images as you scroll up
and down. I'm figuring most users will be utilizing desktops with at
least that width (+ their Browsers Favorites column on the left hand
side). In this day and age most people have desktops far wider than
1024. I use a dual 1920X1200 but I suspect maby thats not that common.
On those writing in here I'm curious what are people using.

1280 x 1024 here, run in full screen mode most of the time.

Images are one thing. The page maximum width due to images is
probably best managed by not placing them side by side.

When it comes to width of displayed text, if you will use CSS for
layout rather than fixed width tables, the text on your pages will
readjust for various screen widths. You can also use tables for
layout and have the text rewrap itself within them if you will set
them to a width based on a percentage of the screen width rather than
a width defined by absolute pixels. The table approach can get messy
when some table cells contain images and other cells contain text.

It's far better, at least in my opinion, to avoid the use of tables
for layout and use CSS for both presentation and layout. Do this and
only the rare few should ever see a horizontal scroll bar when viewing
your site unless they deliberately run their browser in a window
narrower than the widest image on a page.

And then put all your CSS in an external CSS file rather than
embedding it in every page. Also easier IMHO if you tie the
formatting in your CSS file directly to layout tags rather than define
style1, style2, etc, and then assign classes to your layout tags. Much
easier to maintain a consistent appearance across all site pages that
way.

Just a suggestion. I'm having no problems viewing your site, but
those with narrower screens (whether physically narrower or browser
not run in full screen mode) are going to find the need to scroll
horizontally rather annoying. I don't clearly recall the last time I
had to scroll horizontally. I'll admit I run full screen, but it's
also a case of web sites generally not being designed these days as
you've designed yours.

It's a nice site, but two years onto the project I think you might be
happier for having reconsidered site design.
.

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