Re: [Firebird-website] Increasing width of site pages

[Alexey K. <ak...@ib...>]

Hello Norman,


>> Looking at the new site, I often have impression what current width
>> (1024 pixels) is too small for modern screens (which are at least 1368
>> in netbooks and 1920 for desktop systems).
> While this may be true, bear in mind that not everyone has 'modern'
> equipment. I'm working on a laptop that has a maximum resolution of
> 1,024 by 768.

I see that 17% of visitors use eqipment with 1024 pixels, other 80% has 
larger screens.

1024x768 	0.178249372
1280x1024 	0.14178184
1366x768 	0.13923542
1280x800 	0.098544102
1920x1080 	0.076243073
1440x900 	0.072257576
1680x1050 	0.065856485
1600x900 	0.037672993
1920x1200 	0.025964135
1360x768 	0.021913225



Having in mind that new site will be (optimistically) in the middle of 
2012, I suppose %% of users with 1024 pixels will be less than 10%.


>
>> Should we move to 1280px in the next version of the site?
> I would say no. And ask the question, why are we using pixels instead of
> percentages?

Do you mean scaled design? It's very hard to implement reasonable scaled 
design and, more important, standard in our industry (databases and dev 
tools) is to have fixed width sites.
Personally I like scaled designs - here is my favorite sciteific site, 
for example http://elementy.ru/, but we are limited in resources to 
create such design.


>
>> It will give ability to put 1:1 screenshots, may be we can switch to
>> higher types sizes.
> Why nor do what Wordpress does, display the image as a thumbnail (of
> varying sizes) and click to display full size.

Sure, it can be done.
>
>> I'm looking forward to hear your thoughts.
> Hopefully, the above is helpful?

Yes, a bit :)

Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin