Unit 3 Web Design

Lesson 3.2 Display Compatibility
LESSON GOALS • Know how to design for people with different size displays. • Know the common display sizes people have. • Memorize Matthew 5:37
THE WORD
	"Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one." Matthew 5:37 As you memorize this verse, ask the Lord to show you if you are living it in your own life.
*LESSON*
THE LESSON Display Compatibility	As a web designer, you not only need to know what browsers your users have on their machines, but you also need to know what size monitors they have and what resolutions they use to visit your site. This type of information will impact your basic design. If you are designing an internal website and you know everyone is using monitors with a screen size of 1280 x 1024, you can do a lot of things you couldn't even consider if your users had displays of 800 x 600. As you work through this lesson, learn how determine various sizes of monitor displays. You will also want to learn how to set your monitor for different size displays so you can preview your work under different conditions. For purposes of this class, I would like you to design for 800 x 600 displays, unless you are told otherwise. Read "Display Compatibility" by Darrel Stone at his design web site. Read "Sizing Up Browsers" by Steve Mulder. This 4-page article will give you an overview of how different browsers are affected by different screen resolutions.
*RESOURCES*
Resources	"Optimizing Web Viewing" gives brief instructions for setting up your computer monitor to display content at a specified resolution. "Browser and Computer Display Resolutions" will tell you what your current display settings are. "Sizing Web graphics for any screen resolution" by Ron Wilder at ZD Net. "Screen Resolution Issues" at Web in Motion.
*LESSON QUIZ*
Prepare	There will be an online quiz "3.2" for you to take when you have completed this lesson. It is password protected, and you may not use any notes or helps while taking the quiz. Be sure you have a good understanding of the material presented in the lesson.