Posted by Scott Ellis (206.168.33.195) on February 14, 2003 at 10:31:29:
In Reply to: BW.com posted by grim on February 14, 2003 at 04:40:27:
Hi Grim,
Thanks a lot... I'm glad you noticed! The change I made to the the layout is subtle but I think it makes a big difference. I had originally designed the site to be viewable at 640x480 resolution, thinking that was the lowest common denominator out there. But I did some research on it again recently and discovered that in fact nearly 88% of Internet users have a monitor resolution of 800x600 or better:
http://www.dreamink.com/design5.shtml
So I gave besslerwheel.com a little more breathing room, increasing the width of all the pages from 600 pixels to 750 pixels. Makes a big difference! It doesn't have as much of that *squeezed* feeling anymore...
(Note: to the 12% of you out there with 640x480 resolution... sorry! You'll need to use the horizontal scroll bar now to see the whole page.)
And yes, the visitation does seem to be going up dramatically. I haven't analyzed the logs in a few months, but it took about a year to reach 20,000, then less than 4 more months to reach 30,000. Wow...
Best regards and thanks again for your feedback,
Scott
: Hi Scott
: Just to let you know, the new look of the website is great!
: I checked the date that this site had 20,000 hits, and looked at the
: number of hits today, looks like visits have increased exponentially.
: Congrats!
:
: Regards,
: grim