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1. Re: How many of you have begun designing for higher res (1280 or more)?
Jon Fritz II Feb 7, 2014 11:09 AM (in response to jyeager11)With media queries, if you want to support really large monitors, it's pretty simple, it's just an extra set of css attributes. Nobody will see anything different until/unless they have a huge monitor with a maxed browser window.
Most of my sites are still 980 width max, centered for the largest monitors.
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2. Re: How many of you have begun designing for higher res (1280 or more)?
Rick Gerard Feb 7, 2014 11:24 AM (in response to Jon Fritz II)All of my new work is responsive, uses HTML5 context, does not use any flash, is fully mobile compatible, and is Retina Display aware. Starting a new web project today without considering all of these factors means you are obsolete right out of the gate. You're limiting the visibility in search engines, hobbling about 60% of your potential audience, and delivering an inferior product to the folks that are investing in new equipment.
If you are just building a web based brochure or a simple 'this is my vacation' site, then don't worry about it. If you are getting paid for your web work then you owe it to your clients to be on top of the latest technology and implement it on their sites.
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3. Re: How many of you have begun designing for higher res (1280 or more)?
MurraySummers Feb 7, 2014 11:40 AM (in response to Rick Gerard)Well, I'm not building vacation sites, but I'm also not doing lots of responsive ones either. Most of my work recently has been Wordpress stuff.
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4. Re: How many of you have begun designing for higher res (1280 or more)?
Nancy O. Feb 7, 2014 11:41 AM (in response to Rick Gerard)I'm with Rick. All my current projects are Responsive unless the client specifically states otherwise. The old one-size-fits-all layout doesn't cut it anymore.
Nancy O.
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5. Re: How many of you have begun designing for higher res (1280 or more)?
jyeager11 Feb 7, 2014 11:43 AM (in response to MurraySummers)MurraySummers wrote:
Well, I'm not building vacation sites, but I'm also not doing lots of responsive ones either. Most of my work recently has been Wordpress stuff.
And have you begun designing for larger "sweet spot" surfaces than 1024, or are you still playing it safe?
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6. Re: How many of you have begun designing for higher res (1280 or more)?
MurraySummers Feb 7, 2014 11:46 AM (in response to jyeager11)I'm still at the old surface values, but suspect that will change soon. I think this approach is largely determined by visitor demographic and client 'age'...
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7. Re: How many of you have begun designing for higher res (1280 or more)?
osgood_ Feb 8, 2014 12:06 AM (in response to MurraySummers)I'm actually with you on this one...whilst I'd like to make all the sites I get involved in responsive a lot still have a percentage of pages which rely on tabular data (tables) which is not going to work well on a small window width device.
I have to make choices based on what sort of site I'm working on and what sort of content it contains.
Dont see the point in jumping through hoops when quite clearly responsive is flawed all but for sites where columns can be responsive.....a lot of tabular data is NOT flexible. Why construct a site which is 70% responsive and 30% fixed width or just wont narrow any further than the content, just don't see the point.
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8. Re: How many of you have begun designing for higher res (1280 or more)?
Nancy O. Feb 8, 2014 2:29 PM (in response to osgood_)@Os,
Responsive Tables to the rescue.
- http://getbootstrap.com/css/#tables
- http://zurb.com/playground/responsive-tables
- http://css-tricks.com/responsive-data-table-roundup/
Nancy O.
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9. Re: How many of you have begun designing for higher res (1280 or more)?
osgood_ Feb 9, 2014 1:45 AM (in response to Nancy O.)Hi Nancy,
Interesting but still flawed.
Example 2 I see no point in at all - the user still has to scroll left or right - so its not a solution at all, pointless.
Example 3 is much more acceptable BUT it still has its problem. It creates a lot of repetition, the user will have to scroll a lot vertically depending on the amount of data rows in the table or the table data will have to be split into more pages BUT its biggest fault lies if you need to compare the rows of data.
My view is I avoid making responsive designs IF the design requires the use of tabular data where the amount of tabular data will not work effectively regardless of what responsive method is used.


