NYT Pimp Daddy HDTV of Widescreen Design
The NYT redesign for widescreen is very fresh, in a professional evolutionary, but fresh way. Much respect. It's hard designing for small screen on old PCs although I see them enough, and have enough respect (and business survival) on the IE Market. I often use the example that google only has 10 search results per page unless its changed in advanced default settings. Surely they could default to say say 25 or 50 ? :) Maybe not.
Anil on the Widescreen-isation of NYT an industry phenomenon (me : mom i waaaaant one. mom : get a website first.) : "The most prominent change is the new wide page layout, which makes great use of the expanded screen real estate that serious web geeks have available on their displays. A lot has been written about these wider pages recently, but many of the first sites to make smart use of this kind of design have been Movable Type-powered blogs like Gawker Media’s Sploid, Paul Scrivens’ Whitespace, Kevin Cornell’s Bearskinrug, Jason Santa Maria’s blog and Khoi Vin’s Subtraction. The additional space on the page lets the Times use large and valuable ad units online without compromising the amount of editorial information displayed."
Digital Web Magazine have the secrets. Put your design wishlist in for Santa : "More and more people are viewing that 750-pixel fixed-width site on a 1200-pixel widescreen monitor—but because 35% of users are still at 800×600, we need to build sites that satisfy both ends of the spectrum. And while it is relatively easy to design a text-heavy site to liquid width (see Amazon.com), working with a graphics-heavy design is more difficult to make “expandable.” To solve this problem, I’ve created a hybrid using JavaScript and CSS, keeping a static main design yet also offering additional content without scrolling for widescreen users. This allows graphic designers to work within a fixed space for maximum control, but also utilizes the entirety of the viewable monitor space."
Anil on the Widescreen-isation of NYT an industry phenomenon (me : mom i waaaaant one. mom : get a website first.) : "The most prominent change is the new wide page layout, which makes great use of the expanded screen real estate that serious web geeks have available on their displays. A lot has been written about these wider pages recently, but many of the first sites to make smart use of this kind of design have been Movable Type-powered blogs like Gawker Media’s Sploid, Paul Scrivens’ Whitespace, Kevin Cornell’s Bearskinrug, Jason Santa Maria’s blog and Khoi Vin’s Subtraction. The additional space on the page lets the Times use large and valuable ad units online without compromising the amount of editorial information displayed."
Digital Web Magazine have the secrets. Put your design wishlist in for Santa : "More and more people are viewing that 750-pixel fixed-width site on a 1200-pixel widescreen monitor—but because 35% of users are still at 800×600, we need to build sites that satisfy both ends of the spectrum. And while it is relatively easy to design a text-heavy site to liquid width (see Amazon.com), working with a graphics-heavy design is more difficult to make “expandable.” To solve this problem, I’ve created a hybrid using JavaScript and CSS, keeping a static main design yet also offering additional content without scrolling for widescreen users. This allows graphic designers to work within a fixed space for maximum control, but also utilizes the entirety of the viewable monitor space."
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