r€nato
02-19-2009, 05:31 PM
I recently completed a project for a client which only has flat-screen Dell monitors. I designed the site for 1024x768 monitors which on the client's monitors was consistently too 'deep' (high) for them so that vertical scrolling was always necessary.
They wanted me to make their site fit their monitors. It took a bit of explaining to make them understand that 1024x768 is a standard and really the only way to make their site accomodate itself as if everyone had their monitors, would be to sniff the monitor resolution and serve up a differently-composed Flash movie, something they didn't want to do (additional expense).
(I was also annoyed with them for not saying anything about this until we were rather far down the development road!)
We agreed to continue developing for 1024x768 and just move the important stuff upwards, which might be missed if someone didn't scroll down. I have the feeling the client was less than satisfied with the answer but I was not really sure what to do about it other than take several steps backward in the design process and make a wide, shallow layout.
So... anyone else out there had this issue? Where a client wants no scroll bar on their flat-screen, LCD monitor while others on a traditional CRT monitor at 1024x768 or better see it 'normally'?
How did you address it, either in terms of discussing/explaining it with the client or technologically speaking, or both?
Thanks in advance for any tips or advice...
They wanted me to make their site fit their monitors. It took a bit of explaining to make them understand that 1024x768 is a standard and really the only way to make their site accomodate itself as if everyone had their monitors, would be to sniff the monitor resolution and serve up a differently-composed Flash movie, something they didn't want to do (additional expense).
(I was also annoyed with them for not saying anything about this until we were rather far down the development road!)
We agreed to continue developing for 1024x768 and just move the important stuff upwards, which might be missed if someone didn't scroll down. I have the feeling the client was less than satisfied with the answer but I was not really sure what to do about it other than take several steps backward in the design process and make a wide, shallow layout.
So... anyone else out there had this issue? Where a client wants no scroll bar on their flat-screen, LCD monitor while others on a traditional CRT monitor at 1024x768 or better see it 'normally'?
How did you address it, either in terms of discussing/explaining it with the client or technologically speaking, or both?
Thanks in advance for any tips or advice...