Re: Games for Learning

This all depends on the audience; demography and geography would  
affect the screen resolution of your users. In the company I am  
currently working we use a screen resoultion of 1024 x 768 as the  
threshold or rule of thumb. This is for a mainly Norwegian audience  
with the standards of computer equipment that is dominant over here.  
But the perspective of mini-laptops is an intereseting one; there is  
no css-specification – as far as I know – for "small screens" as there  
is for "handheld", so if a big part of the audience is within this  
target group I reckon one should design for 1024 x 600 (or perhaps  
even the previous threshold 800 x 600) and have the issue of above-the- 
fold in mind.

Some more discussion about "above the fold":
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of

best regards,

Ole E. Wattne


On 25. mai. 2009, at 17.41, Susan N. Smith wrote:

> This list helped me immensely in 2005 when I worked for an  
> educational website
> that put content in pop-ups, just as pop-up blockers were put in  
> place.
>
> Now I'm working for a group that wants to make online educational  
> learning
> modules (in, of course, a few weeks of work).  They keep saying we  
> will "work
> these things out" "later" in the process.  I like earlier.
>
> Students' computers are getting smaller.  Students may be using the  
> new
> mini-laptops with screens that are 1024 x 600.  When you design  
> webpages now,
> do you limit the part of the screen that you use to accommodate  
> these smaller
> computers, or do you aim for the people who have 23" monitors, or is  
> there some
> rule of thumb you use now to accommodate the range of users?
>
> Are there other items that have changed very recently that you take  
> into
> consideration when designing webpages?  I've read the research, but  
> that tends
> to be backward-looking.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Sue
>
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