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About Web Browsers and Web Design...
Browsers...
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Your visitors will use a web browser to visit your site, just as you are using one to view this
site. Internet Explorer is by far the most popular
browser, followed by Netscape Communicator.
Sky Valley Web Design uses Microsoft Front Page 2000 for all its web design with the "compatibility
feature" set to only allow features that work in both browsers. All pages are then tested using Internet
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Resolution...
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This site was designed for 800 x 600 resolution. This is the resolution that most people
are using. A very few are still using 640 x 480. The next most popular size is 1024 x 768. However, good
web site design is done so that the pages display properly even if viewed at other resolutions than the one used
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Font Size...
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Sky Valley Web Design designs its web sites with the monitor set to 1024 x 768 and with Internet
Explorer 5 set to use a "medium" font size, as most visitors will be using that resolution, and most
do not make use of the ability to change font sizes, and medium is the default setting. More knowledgeable
users in both browsers will be able to adjust the font sizes themselves. It is not that long ago that 800 x 600
was the most popular resolution.
You can resize the fonts in most browsers. Using Internet Explorer, Click on View - Text Size
and select from the list. There may be a button on the tool bar to do the same thing. Using Netscape, click
on View - Increase Font/Decrease Font, or use Control+] or Control+[ (square
brackets) on the keyboard. |
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Front Page 2000...
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 Sky Valley Web Design uses Microsoft Front Page 2000 for
web design. (FrontPage 2002 just arrived!) Web pages can be
designed with nothing but a text editor and a very good knowledge of Hypertext Markup Language. HTML is used to
design all web pages. This method can be tedious and prone to error. While we can do that, FrontPage cuts down
the time we spend on web site design – reducing your costs. We can then host your sites on a Linux server with
the Front Page Extensions installed. Front Page Extensions support such things as letting users search your web
site for a word, fill in forms to send you information, or use a hit counter to count the number of visitors on
your site. If you are going to take over the maintenance of your site, using FrontPage is a
"no-brainer." |
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Internet Explorer...
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 You can visit Microsoft's site and download the
latest version of Internet Explorer. The latest version is 5.1. It also comes with Outlook Express,
which is a very good e-mail client. It is easy to set it up to check multiple e-mail accounts, or even
multiple identities for different users. |
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Netscape...
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 For those of you that can't be persuaded to use
Internet Explorer, Netscape
is a good alternative. It has a nice interface, but there are number of usability things that are handled
differently. It is more of a chore to use Netscape Communicator to check multiple e-mail accounts. |
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Standards...
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There are HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascaded Style Sheet) standards, but at this
point in time, each browser does a few things in a non-standard way. This makes it more difficult to design a
web page that works properly in all browsers. It is possible to use "browser detection" and have a set
of pages designed for Internet Explorer visitors, and a separate set for Netscape visitors. We prefer to go with
the lowest common denominator, and design pages that work in both browsers. It is hoped that in future versions
of all browsers, that the only reason for choosing one browser over another is because of the users preference
for the way the user interface is designed in the browser, rather than how it interprets a page, or because a
particular browser (or web design tool) has a nice feature, even though it isn't supported by all browsers. |
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