I have images given to me but they are too big to fit in my static website.
How can i optimize these images? What is optimum height and width for the website?
The optimum size for the website depends on the device that you are going to
view the website with(eg: Desktop, mobile).
When selecting the width of the page make sure the viewer does not have to
scroll horizontally(width should fit the screen). Height should depend on the
contents in the website(can be allowed to scroll vertically).
The best way is to use bootstrap to make the page responsive so that the page
will adjust itself to meet the screen dimensions. Use the following link to use
bootstrap in your page. http://getbootstrap.com/
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I am currently formatting my Django web application using Twitter Bootstrap, but things start getting weird when I resize the browser.
Ideally, I would like to keep the same format regardless of browser size, and if they go too small, than just a horizontal scroll is introduced:
If the screen resolution is 1024x768, I want the site to look good (using the full width of the screen, no warping or adjustments of image files, no horizontal scroll). If the display is wider than 1024px, there are blank space on either size. If narrower than 1024px, a horizontal scroll is introduced.
I was wondering what the best way to go about this is. Is there a way with Twitter Bootstrap? I was also thinking of putting everything into a border-less table with defined widths and centering the table on the screen? Hoping then things inside the table wouldn't resize down.
I am using amp (Accelerated Mobile Pages Project) technology in a new project.
My concern is about amp-img tag for images. According to this documentation (https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/spec/amp-html-layout.md) you can use the attribut layout='responsive' for responsive purpose and in conjonction you can use srcset,media,sizes attributs also for responsive purpose.
Likewise, the documentation says that the image will take the space of its parent container.
I don't understand this logic. Why should we size the container to have the proper size of the image. If it works this way, it is very heavy to use.
Thank you in advance for your answers
The tricky part is having responsive elements render on the page without adversely affecting performance metrics or user experience.
Yes, you can easily get images to fit the screen without width and height but there are performance hits. I think that is why AMP does not allow responsive layout without width and height.
The browser must download the image first to get the dimensions of the image, then resize the image appropriately for the screen size, and finally reflow and repaint the page.
In AMP, the rendering path is optimized so that first the page is laid out, setting aside placeholders for the images based on the dimensions provided in amp-img (using those numbers to establish aspect ratio), then the resources are downloaded, and the page is painted. No reflow is required.
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I'm having a problem with a website I've built: whenever I view the site on a smaller monitor or when I resize the browser window, the content gets covered by the other divs. I need the content to be fully visible, no matter what size the browser is.
http://sophisticateddesign.nl/cfreport/overons.html
Also, on the homepage the text gets cut off a little bit on the bottom row when I resize the browser. I need this row to increase in height a bit, which apparently can't be achieved by simply increasing the divs' height.
http://sophisticateddesign.nl/cfreport/index.html
You should take a look at responsive web design. By using a fluid grid together with one or many media queries you can achieve what you're asking for.
Here's a good introduction if you'd like to get started. I can also highly recommend Ethan Marcotte's book about the subject!
The simplest way is not to define widths in pixels but using only width in %. You defined for example width: 960px; for <html> so if the browser window is less than 960px the whole content of this site won't be visible. You also defined the footer width and probably some more elements.
But the true is nowadays you should learn rather Responsive Web Design to create your page adjusting to device width. Many sites are being used by people on PC, laptops, tablets and mobile phones and you cannot create complex site to look nice on all those devices without using responsive design techniques.
I need to put together website for mobile devices, so iPhones and various androids. The problem is I struggle with getting viewport right and other settings. My goal is so webpage would be coded for specific width e.g. 640px wide. Then once open device would zoom it in/out to the width of the screen so everything became larger or smaller same like after zoomig in/out via pinching on the device screen.
So I would like to develop it for lets say 640px width and depending on device it would scale up or down once open. So if device screen would be 960px wide it would automatically scale to this width via viewport somehow. Is this possible at all to have it coded for predefined width in css and have zoomed in/out as needed by device itself?
I apologize if the question is too generic, will explain details if needed.
EDIT:
So the most common approach if I understand correctly is to provide few layout versions for most commons screen sizes? Using media queries in css provide different values for widths, fonts sizes etc is that right?
If I decide however to go with percentages rather than media queries, given the design provided I think still would have a problem with resizing fonts as layout has images with text in it and text needs to be proportional to the image. Also percentages would take care of widths, height might be an issue though as the images would have to be resized vertically too. Some parts of the design would need to "fit" each other it seems and it would become problem I think.
Now if I simply build a website of certain width, lets say 640px I should be able to position everything on the screen with pixels, no diffeent from normal non-mobile website.
So I tried to set <meta name="viewport" content="width=640"> and inside of a page set width of widest container in css to 640px making page width 640px basically. If I understand correctly it will set up viewport to exact width of the page. So the page would be build as any other non-mobile webpage. User will have to adjust scale by pinching as when the page opens it is usually zoomed in/out for some reason. Is my understanding of what is happening here correct or is there some problem with it. Having it predefined size takes care of different mobile screen sizes as viewport is always same, fits into page width and only scale seems the problem, that is unless I'm missing something here.
I also should have mentioned that I need to do only portrait and make it only option, so no landscape view (that will be another question).
Would love to know your thoughts and I appreciate all the answers so far.
This is called Responsive Web Design when a website adjusts according to screen size...
You can make this kind of responsive website easily through CSS3 Media Queries:
How to write CSS Media Queries for common types of devices
Responsive Web Design: What It is and How to Use It
If you google for Responsive Web Design you will find lots more information on this topic. It's really an amazing method to make your website look great on all devices from small to large screens.
We have a series of tutorials on creating web pages using responsive web design. If you want a quick introduction to it checkout Introduction: Creating a Responsive Web Design, it lists common mobile phone and tablet sizes, so it might lead you to the answer you need. You can find the link to our tutorial series in the article. The solutions provided use Bootstrap in order to provide easy to create pages. And it also provides free samples of responsive web design pages.
I hope this helps to provide the answer that you need, if not, then please let us know if we can provide any further assistance.
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Specify the width in percentage say width=100%,which automatically adjusts the width with the screen.
Hi more of a question of opinion or best practice here. I am building a site that has a page with a carousel at the top under which there is an accordion. The accordion includes all of the same images as the carousel but at half the size.
For performance would it be best to use the same images as the carousel as then there will only be one http call for that asset or generate the correct size image variations for all the relevant slots but increase the amount of requests for the same asset?
Use the same images at both places and re-size them using height and width attributes of img tag