Thread "728 x 90... the new 480 x 60?" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 2:03PM, Mar. 13, 2006

Well most computers I see operate on 800x600.

Posted at 6:03PM, Mar. 13, 2006

If you've got a monitor that cant work at 1024 x 768 or higher, you shouldnt be allowed on the internet.

Well, guess I`ll be leaving now.

.: Myxomatosis :.

Posted at 6:03PM, Mar. 13, 2006

It's okay. The views expressed by the individual that calls himself "Jesus" are not the opinion of Drunk Duck. :wink:

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Posted at 9:03PM, Mar. 13, 2006

Aww, come on I was just kidding. I know that`s not what everyone thinks :roll:

Though I have a 800x600 screen, and since I'm pretty much poor, that's all I'm gonna get. The site doesn`t look half bad. I just fucking hate scrolling though. Now I wouldn't mind if it was a good ad, but the ads there are just…ughhh.

.: Myxomatosis :.

Posted at 7:03AM, Mar. 14, 2006

Of course their is, but my comment adresses people who aren't using it like that obviously :D

Centering because you don't know what else to do is generally frowned upon in formal art training. I don't see any reason why that logic can't be applied to web design.

Posted at 9:03AM, Mar. 14, 2006

Centering because you don't know what else to do is generally frowned upon in formal art training. I don't see any reason why that logic can't be applied to web design.

I've had over seven years of "formal art training"… And again, obviously I'm not talking about doing something when you "don't know what else to do", I'm talking about design and good use of a space that expands.

If you PLAN a design right, then justifying your design to any side, top, bottom, to fill the entire space, or even 20 pix from the right and 9 from the top can be perfectly lovely!
But no… the designs I refer to are not clever. Why do I have to make this clear to you?

Posted at 10:03AM, Mar. 14, 2006

Why do I have to make this clear to you?

You don't have to do anything you don't want to, ozone.

I'm not trying to get in your face about this or anything. I just think it's odd that page design on the web differs so much from print page design. Web design should seemingly have more all-over freedom, yet people nearly always center their compositions, which is a weak solution.

Posted at 11:03AM, Mar. 14, 2006

Fair enough Radarig, I'm sorry I was a little snappy.

which is a weak solution.

I don't agree here, it is a solution, but it's not weak; it's just one of the choices a designer has. All have certain merits, none weaker or stronger, just alternatives.

Web design is much different from design on paper in that your paper design doesnâ€™t change proportion. Paper design is a lot simpler.
Centring is an excellent solution for narrow, compact designs: it allows your tabled block of content to appear in the middle of the program window, right where the user expects to look for it.
Just like this comic

Posted at 11:03AM, Mar. 14, 2006

Getting back to the topic, I think the DD page layout would be much better if it actually were 800x600 friendly, but with tower ads to the right side, instead of wide ads on top. It just looks better to me.

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Posted at 5:03PM, Mar. 14, 2006

tower ads to the right side, instead of wide ads on top. It just looks better to me.

I don't think that would work because of all the boxes full of comic links. It'd mean lots of scrolling to get down to your faves or other other lists that were pushed right down a couple of screen lengths…

The extra long adds fit into an 800 width perfectly if they don't have the Drunk Duck logo and the control pannel icon next to them. All that's needed is to put the add above them like it is in a lot of the templates. The same if it's like that in the forums too.

Posted at 5:03PM, Mar. 14, 2006

I was gonna say, why not mode the ads to where the Terms of Service is, and move the to the top, but then I realized. Damn, that`s the same.

But it would make it a bit less annoying.

The way the ads is here on the fourms, like Ozone said is a very good idea.

.: Myxomatosis :.

Posted at 6:03AM, Mar. 15, 2006

I'll just have to agree to disagree. Buuut, it's going way off topic, so.

Just like this comic

I made that particular page in, like, ten minutes after the site came back up. Like I said, it's the obvious, easy choice to finish a look. I haven't really had the chance to design it what with the classes I take and the fact that I rarely update it anyway.

Posted at 10:03AM, Mar. 15, 2006

GAAAHHH!
No I have to wait for Ask.com to finish it's stinking show before I Can hit the forum button?

I'm all for making $$ but.. sigh…

Posted at 8:03PM, Mar. 15, 2006

other comic hosting sites might be starting to look better now…