Hello:
When deciding on what page size, pixel size for major titles, minor titles, text size, is there some rule of thumbs that one needs to look at before starting the build of the website.
My situation is that I design on a 49 in. screen and preview. Then I will publish to my laptop to see what it looks like. For me I have my browser set at 50 % zoom. I am aware that designing on a big screen can create a viewing bias and I did fall into that trap so now I have to make all my pictures smaller so that the entire picture is viewable at 100 % zoom.
I realized that it seems most people have the default zoom set for 100 % which makes everything on my website too big, unless people change the scale of the browser. I suspect most will not change the zoom and thus leave my website.
I tend to change the zoom when I am browsing to suit my taste, but that is my bias.
The Xara manual suggests to make the page size no bigger than 990 pixels wide but more common is typically 800 pixels. I built my site using 1280 pixels.
Since there are so many screen sizes out there, how does one create a strategy on picture proportions, font proportions, to make the site a pleasurable viewing experience?
Sincerely,
Ingo
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