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to take a look at my blog and tell me if photos/text are overlapping?

http://skywalkerbeth.blogspot.com/

for instance - the first post. How do you see it?

I have a wide screen, and I see:

photo {text} photo straight across
and some leftover text falls below the two photos...

thanks!
 
woodstock said:
to take a look at my blog and tell me if photos/text are overlapping?

http://skywalkerbeth.blogspot.com/

for instance - the first post. How do you see it?

I have a wide screen, and I see:

photo {text} photo straight across
and some leftover text falls below the two photos...

thanks!
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The text between the photos "I bought a little P&S" is squished to 2 letters per column.

I used to have an awesome tool, but I can't find it. It basically showed you your website (even intranets) in whatever resolution you wanted....

edit: It was better than browsershots.
 
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This is what I see.
 

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whoa, thanks. weird weird weird.

dang it. I had a different template this morning, and decided to change it to stretched - use more of the screen. I think the other template was universally user friendly, although I hated it on my wide screen.

crap, if I have to go back to the old template it's a lot of work. crap.
 
I'll play with it some more, maybe I could resize certain photos when side by side..

hang on...
 
OK, that particular post I changed slightly so one photo is smaller and the other one is same size. I hope that takes care of it.

ps. Nick - recognize the header photo?
 
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Thanks everyone! It didn't occur to me when I farted around with it that I was optimizing for my own big screen which only helps me but has gaps for others.
 
woodstock said:
Hi

No, that was 2007.

I don't know how to resize the browser window!
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I think you do. He just means that you can resize the window. On the bottom corner click and drag to make it less wide. This produces the same effect as having a lower horizontal screen resolution.

There are also Firefox add-ons available to perfectly match the common sizes:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1985
 
woodstock said:
Is that the zoom level? I found that...
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No -- nothing to do with zoom or the browser. This is just basic "Using Windows" stuff. A window in the Windows operating system does not have to be full screen.

Please look at this -- it explains how to control a window in Microsoft Windows. You can resize a window using the resize button on the bottom right of almost any Window in the Windows operating system.
http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/592
 
Liz, I love the site. FYI, your top "Travel. See. Do." balloon banner is too wide, even for my wide screen. See Chris Jones' picture; the scroll bar at the bottom show you have to slide to the right to see all the content. Your photos and text are "within the window", but if you scroll to the top and then the right of your page, you'll see this:
 

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jesse said:
No -- nothing to do with zoom or the browser. This is just basic "Using Windows" stuff. A window in the Windows operating system does not have to be full screen.

Please look at this -- it explains how to control a window in Microsoft Windows. You can resize a window using the resize button on the bottom right of almost any Window in the Windows operating system.
http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/592
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oh, duh. OK, I get it. Interesting. I knew about the min/max boxes but never bothered to change the size. I always max it out anyway. thanks! that helps a lot, I'll play.
 
TangoWhiskey said:
Liz, I love the site. FYI, your top "Travel. See. Do." balloon banner is too wide, even for my wide screen. See Chris Jones' picture; the scroll bar at the bottom show you have to slide to the right to see all the content. Your photos and text are "within the window", but if you scroll to the top and then the right of your page, you'll see this:
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Thanks Troy!

What I don't get (entirely) is why they allow for the scrolling (wide banner) but it doesn't then keep the "full size" text/photos down below, so that the viewer using a smaller screen doesn't see photos bunched on top of each other.

I looked at work (flat screen, but smaller and almost square I swear) and it was a mess. Very bunched and overlapped.

I guess I will just please myself and the heck with turning it back to the other template. I really didn't care for it that much. Too much wasted space on the left side.

Many laptops are wide screen, maybe not 24 inches like my own monitor but at least not bunchy squares.

I fixed the Tour de France post, check it out:

http://skywalkerbeth.blogspot.com/2009/09/astana-on-col-des-abeilles.html
 
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