Thanks, Joe!

Joe,

Thank you for the new simplified way of posting an image - it is much easier.

Rick

Thank you, Joe

That does simplify it, but, although I do have FireFox, I will resort to the old procedure to ensure I don't end up with the dreaded "red X". MRH Mag is supercalifragilisticexpealadocious.

Actually, it's going the other way

Eric:

Web designer wisdom 3-4 years ago was a larger page width is better.

With the advent of mobile (tablets and smartphones), that's all changed.

Now, 800 pixels wide is considered a good compromise for desktops and tablets - and even 800 wide is a pain on smart phones. Narrower still is actually better - like 500-600 pixels, since that's also more readable on a smart phone.

In short - no, going wider is NOT a modern web design best practice with the rise of mobile devices that can connect to the internet. In fact, 800 pixels may be too wide - 500-600 is even better. Expectation is there will be more mobile device users hitting websites by 2015 than from desktops or laptops.

Mobile internet-capable devices are currently outselling traditional desktops and laptops by 500%.

Until people start plugging

Until people start plugging their mobile devices into the 1080p tv sets to get a really good look at content.

Then there's going to be one heck of a rift for web designers to bridge, ultra-narrow for the phone(y) devices and 1920 wide for the plugged into their tv to look at really high quality content people.

And I expect that with the proliferation of wireless you won't even need to plug your device into your tv. Just get it close and they'll connect automatically.

Of course if you have an iPhone, good luck on getting it to connect to anything other than an Apple tv. But android and windows (and whatever comes next) will connect to anything and do it for much less cost.

btw. did you iPhone4S users look at paragraph 15 in your user agreement? It restricts the mpeg4 and AVC video encoding and decoding software to personal and non-commercial uses. Now given that something has to encode the video shot with the phone that makes me wonder whether it's legal to upload iPhone4S video to youtube and turn on ads. Or if MRH can use iPhone4S video in a paid for article. The Apple legal depart is not answering my emails on this subject.

Charlie

Mobile devices and big screen TVs

Already my iPad and iPhone will connect with a cable to my big screen TV and play back video that's simply amazing in clarity.

As to the MPEG4 / AVC clause in the Apple agreement, that's for videos that sell over 50,000 copies, at which point some payment is due. I don't think Kalmbach has even sold that many copies of any videos, much less Model Trains Video or any of the other model railroading video vendors. In the model railroading space, if you sell 1000 copies of some video, it's a rip-roaring success.

So for model train videos (and just about anything that's not a Hollywood movie in distribution scope), you can ignore the MPEG4 / AVC clause. That clause is to make the large movie houses pay up if they decide to use the MPEG4 or AVC format - not the little guy.

Eric:

If we made the web page wider, it would suck big time. The lines would be so long your eyes would lose their place, etc. It's conventional wisdom in the publishing industry that really wide pages are hard to read - that's why text gets put into columns, and so on.

If you want bigger, zoom in so more of the page fills the screen. Or go read it on your tablet - that's more comfortable anyway than sitting at a huge computer monitor all night.

Larger Wider Screans & Easy Photo Posts

First Joe is Right about internet posting on line viewers going smaller, But The On Line Gamers Have that Beat. according to PC Magazine and PC Gamer Magazine there are now in excess of 1/2 Billion on line MMO Gamers (Massive Multiplayer On line gamers) world wide and with China joining the MMO Game world that number is said may double by 2015. The wide Screen Monitors are more for their game viewing use as well as for watching HD Movies the wider screen is preferred. 

The Small screen Telephone and readers are more for the Blogger, Texter & E-zine readers for the on the go people that have to have this form of communication for business and for staying in touch with the world as it goes around. This number is suppose to reach 2 billion users by 2015. So both Narrow and Wide screens have their purpose.

The next step is real time 3D imaging something like the Chess game from the movie Star Wars.

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NEW FAST PHOTO POSTING;

I never really had any trouble using the original photo posting method But this new way just has 2 less steps and only takes 1/2 the time to use. This is a GOOD THING

As my old friend Don Rickels always said:  Joe you win a Cookie

Dan

Hit Cntrl + "+"

Later Firefoxes zoom in with Cntrl "+" and our with Cntrl "-" And the zoom seems to compensate for pixelation more than I expected.

*Sigh*

I never have understood the point in having a multitasking operating system if you run everything full screen. I have my browser window set to around 1500 pixels wide. The web pages fill the window adequately, and I can see all the other windows on the monitor, which allows me to easily click on them when needed.

If the website looks too small, try setting your browser in a window that you can move around your screen. Problem solved. 

Eric, I hope ...

Eric, I hope you're not missing something here due to it not being explicitly stated. The zooming by use of "CTRL/+" can be by multiple steps. I always do three steps when viewing the MRH web site. I have a slightly higher resolution monitor and it is set for 1280 x 768. The text is great and so are the pictures (even though the resolution is not there, the size on the monitor is big).

Joe is "on the money" with the comment on mobile device displays. That is the way the world is going ("today") - the world may get smarter years from now and realize that few mobile devices provide much more than being able to make a mobile phone call and play angry birds while waiting for the paycheck to show up in their in baskets. Today, having a smartphone or tablet is not a necessity - it is a status symbol - a trending or fad.

Here is a screenshot with the resolution adjusted to the required maximum of 800 dpi horizontal. It was at 1225 pixels wide (95 % of the monitor's width) when captured:

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With your larger monitor, you could get this same size without clipping the right-hand menu as much as it is in my example.

I hope this reply is of help to you (and others, as well).

New simplified image posting process

Hello Joe,

It's been a long time since I last communicated with you (I think the last time was over at MRR) and I'm very glad to see you're doing well. A lot of good information, and ideas on the forum.    I've been a member here for a while but have not posted much due to my having problems posting photos here (the fault's mine I'm sure, being a web klutz!).  

I read the info, so I'll give it a go!

Thanks and high greens.