Screen resolutions vs. Set Pixel sizes on photos-help please

[scubadiva]

This may seem a simple, ridiculous question for experts, but this is a work in progress for me.

I'm working on a Mac Powerbook with the 17" screen res. set to 1440 x 900...until I get my new workstation in June. With so many resolutions out there, and the predominant screen resolution being set to 1024x768, I realize that I should set my screen this way to produce the most common size website.

I noticed on my personal website (on a PC) it looks poorly distorted in IE, though I have my height/width dimensions set. This shouldn't matter since my Index.jpg is a floating imagemap with specified dimensions, right? Shouldn't it stay the correct dimensions you set by pixels on all screens, no matter what the resolution? The image is width="720" height="669"

[tracknut]

Let's see a link to your site. It's very hard to guess what's going on...

Dave

[scubadiva]

I didn't want anyone here to think I was advertising, but I do need help. You can see the source code.

sherriestjames.com

Thank you so much! I appreciate the help.

sherrie:)

[Kor]

well... hm... I don't want to discourage you, but I guess you have to learn first how to create web pages. It is not enough to create a big picture and insert map areas on it as a menu. You have to cut your picture, to use HTML/CSS elements (DIV, or TABLE), text, fonts, background... You have to use graphic pictures as small as possible... You have to position them...

No offense, please, but... learn first how to build HTML documents... :)

[tracknut]

The problem is that this image is actually 1008x914 pixels, and you're scaling it down to 720x669 in the web browser. Not only is that a no-no, but you're not scaling it linearly (there's more horizontal scaling than vertical). So it's bound to start looking a bit screwy. You need to re-create this image, at 720x669 if you want it to look right.

That said, this is really not a good way (one image, huge image map for hot spots) to make this page. Search engines will not see any of the text, the text can't scale for different browser settings... just the wrong way. It should be a background image, your logo and central images, and then the rest should be displayed as text, not graphics.

Dave

Dave

[scubadiva]

I was in a huge pinch, and I needed a website in a day...so at the time I did what I had to do.

So thank you, both, for responding.
I'm not offended at all...and knew that I would have people throwing rotten tomatoes at me where I to even ask on this advanced forum.

That makes sense why the distortion. I don't remember resizing the image. Panic does things like that. I will fix it and slice it up and make it nice.:)

Time didn't permit perfection....and that's what I got. NOT perfect.

Thank you!