HELP! About My Animal Website--What Do YOU See?

First off I would like too say what a awesome website you have made. Now Yes I see the pictures on the top half of the page all lined up nicely. And the bottom half are as you said all jumbled up. Now keep in mind I have an even smaller screen because I'm on a laptop. Good luck with the site and I will be looking back often.

First... don't freak out with that website http://www.anybrowser.com/siteviewer.html You should only concern yourself with the people viewing your website as HTLM 4.0 Transitional... which is the majority of the people. There should not be anyone out there still using HTLM 3.2. (see bottom of page on that site). I checked myLot on that site to see if they got it right... and they do... but it still display differently than in HTLM 4.0 When I did look at your site... the photos and the text at the top are all over the place... while you have no space between the text lines at the bottom. Plus you are making the cardinal mistake of assuming that everyone is on broadband. Your page takes far too long to upload. To fix that problem... you can start by compressing your pictures to reduce their size. Your 3 cats at the top read... 135076 bytes... 224936 bytes... 271313 bytes. Each one of those pictures should not be more than 50000 bytes or less. The monitor size has nothing to do with it. It is the resolution at which people watch things on their monitor which count. Today... the most popular resolutions are 800x600 or 1024x768. When you start building a website... you have to decide which of those two resolutions you are going to use. You only need to concern yourself with the width... 800 or 1024. The height does not matter as web pages can be of any lenght. Obviously... if you design it for 1024... it won't fit in a window of 800... and it will be all over the place. On the other hand... if you design it in 800... and someone watch it in 1024... it won't fill the screen... but at least the design won't change and it will still look like the way you intended it to be. To go around those problems... you don't set any dimensions in pixel. You have to do everything in percentage... including your pictures. It is a lot of work to get it right. Not a matter of hours... or even days... but more like weeks if you are a beginner.

The site is looking good, although some of the pictures are not in a line. Some of your captions about the photos are not together. I have a 15" flat monitor. Hope that helps.

It was a little jumbled for me. A few things to realize it's not just the screen size but the size of the browser window (whether you have it at maximized or not) and more importantly the resolution of the monitor. Mine is set at 1024x768 and trust me things look very different on that in comparison to 800x600. Something I would suggest doing is to not use pixel width/height for placement but percentages. That way if you do it by percentage width and height it will adjust to the view size. I don't know if you are doing straight html or using a builder for this. I personally like using a WYSIWYG because I can view it as I make it and I can easily set up tables to make it so that they are by percentages and things stay in line with ease. A nice free builder is NVU: http://nvudev.com/index.php They have a windows and a mac version. I hope this helps

You're correct...the captions don't line up with the photos. It may be that you'll have to adjust your display resolution. I'm operating on 1024x768 pixels. I think most of us are these days. Bugger!

I have a smaller monitor and the pictures are in two rows and are not aligned. And the text looks like crap. Have you thought it may be a Freewebs thing? I used All4Webs version instead which gave me more control conerning the layout of the webpage. You might want to try their free version and compare and contrast. Since both are free you can pick the one that turns out best based on appearance rather than cost.

Are you using a program to do your page or are you writing your own code? I always write my own code, that way I can get my pages how I like them, not how the programs put them. I can help you out with the code if you want, to get it all centered on ANY size monitor. There should be commands in a program though, that will also do that. I haven't messed with it in a while, but I can look it up really quick in my book or on one of my sites that I've done to help ya out. Let me know!

I'm using IE6 at work (use Opera at home), I see 2 rows of photographs (3 on each row) for the first set, and for the second I see 3 photos on the first row, 1 on the second and 4 on the third. I don't see any individual captions for the photoss. It looks reasonable to me. I would have thought that the problem would be with the browser used, rather than the size of the monitor (smaller monitors, unless very small, should show smaller pictures).

The first row of pics are in the center the ones below that are on the right. I am using a HP laptop wide screen. The ones below look fuzzy as if they have been enlarged from smaller pics. The tex is a little crammed,words sitting on top of words. I visited the site using Firefox it may look different in IE 7. The browser, screen size, and a lot of other factors make them look different. Like the saying goes "you can please some of the people all the time, you can please all the people some of the time, but you can't please all the people all the time." You did a good job of getting your point across.

The web site looks okay to me. I do think videos of the procedures would be much better. Still photos do not show what really is going on. To a casual observer, the animals appear fine. The orange tabby is just staring at the camera. The first two and the last two are the most effective because one can see that some experiments are being done. I do not know anything about the horse unless he is bound for the glue factory

Well, on this computer, the top three pictures are centered and in a row. Then the bunny is all teh way to the right on a row by herself. Then the other two pictures are on the next row to the left. The Text is all centered. I didn't like the pictures at the bottom, and don't want to scroll back down to see how things are arranged there... sorry.

First thing = GOOD JOB!! I really think you did a wonderful job. But i guess you're right - my PC uses a 14-inch monitor... the text does not look crappy - they were somewhat 'HUGE' for my screen. The pictures are properly aligned, though... I was really glad to see the link to Malaysia's Animal Shelter. Anyhow... GREAT JOB!...

Looking at it with a 21 inch diagonal monitor, it looks jumbled, and when I go full screen some of the jumble moves, but it is still a jumble. Sorry. And I am getting some pixelization from some of the bottom images.

well i think it looks great and everything seemed to be lined up pretty good on my computer which is a 17' screen.i think you did a splendid job there my friend.great photos too as well.pattie

I see clearly photos of animals and some text. It all looks fine. I think you should write some more content. Best of luck

as I have a 17 inch scene too I see what you see . But then no telling what the littler scenes see. YOu might need to edit for the smaller scene so every one can see what we see.

Everything lined up great on my Gateway laptop with a 15" monitor. Some of the pictures were kind of fuzzy, though. I like the background you selected for the site and I think you did a great job of setting it up!

Hey Pye, I know that different browsers effect the way that certain websites look.There is also a difference when you use a Mac vs Pc when you set-up the site.If you get a chance go and visit Sitepoint.com they explain it better then I ever could in one of their forum topics.

I don't see any captions under the pictures at all. As for the alignment there are 3 pictures on top and 3 below but not aligned at all. One tip I would give you is with the text...I would use columns instead of just writing across the page the way you did. Maybe a column about something and a picture or two beside it. This is just my opinion.

On my 17 inch monitor running on linux not windows it looks good. Except for the pictures at the bottom, the text bleeds over into the pictures and they are all jumbled. The pictures of the animals that are cared for and those in testing labs all showed up great. Great website but I would definitely fix the bottom section.