Site Check Please for Mars Art Gallery

Hi Stan,

On 1 Jun 2005 23:16:50 -0700, Stan McCann <me (AT) stanmccann (DOT) us> wrote:

Jim <Jim (AT) nospamwanted (DOT) com> wrote in
news:711s91dc3bf6bel7jqkkttmtnon0srnfa8 (AT) 4ax (DOT) com:

Yes, I was designing with 1024w in mind as many newer machines are
now running at 1280w.

I use 1024x768 for my monitor. I do not use windows full screen as I
am usually working in several back and forth sizing and positioning so
that it is just a click on any window to activate it.

Nor do I. When I said "designing with 1024w in mind", I was
considering that a person's browser would be some percentage of that
screen width. By default, I never maximize my browser window: only
when forced to based on content of a specific page.

What I used to judge the window size is a resize utiltity included in
Web Developer, an add on tool bar for FireFox.

Yeah I've got that add-on as well. A very nifty tool. I just tried it
out on the http://www.marsartgallery.com/o_genesis.html page and the
results aren't pretty.

For your picture pages,
you may even want to consider horizontal navigation using the entire
width you choose for picture resolution.

I, and I'd guess others are far more likely to temporarily maximaze a
browser window to see the entirety of an interesting picture than to do
so for a menu. Your choice, as the artist, is then the limiting factor
giving you freedom to display even larger sizes if you wish.

Now this is screwy. Everything fits within an 850 wide browser window
on my old laptop but I just tried it on my desktop and its a 1014 wide
window. Wierd.

2) Yes, I've done ul lists of links before but for this I wanted
something different - more of a text/paragraph feel. However, that
little leading dot would make it easier for users to spot the link.
Looks like some reworking is in order.

You can style the dot away, replace it with your own graphic (doesn't
work right in IE), or use a couple of predefined shapes.

I'll need to do some learning to figure that out. Oh, and thanks for
the link to the page about CSS navigation in your previous post. An
excellent article.

I do use hover links for all links: both for the nav bar and the
individual links in the text. Could you give me an example? Note
that for the nav bar links, the hover mode paints the background
gray while leaving the text color unchanged - a subtle but present
effect.

You've got it, just a bit too subtle for my eye. I had to go back and
look after reading your message to see the gray. I'm not that subtle,
probably my most subtle :hover is on: http://abateofnm.org/

Subtle indeed.

Thanks for your help.



Best Regards, Jim Plaxco
Astrodigital http://www.astrodigital.org
Mars Art Gallery http://www.marsartgallery.com
Chicago Space Society http://www.chicagospace.org