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    Re: Can anyone give me some web site design advice? —Christopher Masi
    It would be really nice if browsers could scale images down to fit a the screens resolution; afterall, many picture viewing utilities do that automatically. Please do not make the pictures too small. I just want them to fill MY screen. To heck with (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: Can anyone give me some web site design advice? —Frank Buiting
     (...) fit. Browsers can fit images to the size of the window: <img src="myimage.gif" width=100%> This scales the image to fit the width of the browser window. I personally prefer to use thumbnails and when clicking on it the full (unscaled) picture (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
    
         Re: Can anyone give me some web site design advice? —Christopher Masi
      (...) Hmm...maybe I'll start using this tag. (...) Sorry, I meant that it would take longer to load nine 8K thumbnails and then load nine 70K pictures 1 by 1 than it would to load a page with just nine 70K pictures. (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
     
          Re: Can anyone give me some web site design advice? —Dan Boger
      (...) The one problem I have with this is that my screen is usually more that most pictures - in which case saying width=100% will _strech_ the picture, distorting it. On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 19:11:24 GMT Christopher Masi <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
    
         Re: Can anyone give me some web site design advice? —Christopher Masi
     Woa, I just tried the width=100% thing. The aspect ratios change depending on the size of the page if I use the width=100% tag. Chris (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: Can anyone give me some web site design advice? —Brad Hamilton
   Thanks for all the advice Chris. I revamped my site with smaller pictures. Its MUCH better. Seriously though, why not come out of the dark ages and upgrade that 256 color video card? Being a software developer, I just HATE it when we have to make (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: Can anyone give me some web site design advice? —Allan J. Smith
   (...) Because I spend all my spare cash on LEGO I can't afford to upgrade my 486sx25 with a VGA 640 x 480 256 screen. I did have a SVGA screen but that blew up and I was given the VGA screen. I designed my web pictures to fit in a 600 x 480 screen (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
 

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