[plug] Make The Move website launched!

[Jonathan Young]

Arie Hol wrote:
> On 5 Jan 2007 at 9:12, Chris Smart wrote:
>   
>> Dear pluggers,
>>
>> I am a clugger, but wanted to post to the plug list about a new website
>> that I've launched, http://makethemove.net (coding by MattV in Albany).
>>
>> It is a website designed to promote Linux and open source software as
>> viable alternatives to Windows and other computer systems.
>>     
>
> Nice work, easy on the eye and with a good lay-out.
>
> My aging CRT had bit of a wrestle with the recommended resolution of 
> 1024x768.
>
> Hint : not every body in the world has the most modern whiz bang display 
> units.
>   
Not to be argumentative Arie, but I wholeheartedly disagree with keeping 
website resolutions down to include a broader audience.  For those 
people who wish to run old CRT screens, fine.  But expect the various 
headaches that go with them and expect to find some things hard to view.

I also wasn't going to bite until I read units capable of greater than 
1024x768 described as "the most modern whiz bang display units"!  That's 
not really accurate...

My current laptop which I've had for over a year runs every day at 
1680x1050 (wide-screen) and my previous laptop did similar (1400x1050 
non-wide-screen).  I purchased them in 2005 and 2002 respectively.  Now 
these are LAPTOPS running at their limit, but that's what I wanted AS A 
MINIMUM spec.  I'd expect MORE from a desktop display.  Prior to 
switching to laptops for day to day use, I was running desktop CRTs 
(17") and from 1997 onwards I was running at 1280x1024 whenever 
possible.  It has been more than 10 years since I used 1024x768 or 
800x600 on a regular basis on my own PCs and I have been encouraging my 
clients to own hardware able to do 1024x768 (minimum) since about 2002.

Now I say all of this simply because I wouldn't want anyone developing a 
website to think that expecting it to require 1024x768 as a minimum is a 
bad thing - in fact, it's about time.

If things don't look quite right for those with old CRTs... don't 
worry.  They'll be used to it soon enough...

-- 
Jonathan Young
Director of PC-PHIX
jonathan at pcphix.com

Phone: 0410 455 674
Web: http://www.pcphix.com/

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