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Chapter: > Part Five
So I caved to public pressure and decided to start making my pages bigger. I probably won’t get a chance to go through the archives and resize the previous 179 pages until some time next month, but there you are. I’ve abandoned any hope that one can read through the archives without scrolling (which was long my goal) so that you can experience this crowd of tiny crazy Maldivians in all their glory.
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One only needs a not-that-uncommon 1920×1200 pixel monitor to read the archives without scrolling. Even if I resize my browser window to the more common 1080 pixel height, the comic fits into the window. That’s with a browser optimized for vertical height and no space for a panel/taskbar, though. But switching the browser to fullscreen isn’t a bad idea for an archive crawl anyway. For the popular 1280×1024 monitors, the header would only have to be slightly smaller. For example, the comic title could be moved below the comic – it’s in the anyway. Or the navigation could move to a sidebar. Or the prev/next links could point to an anchor in the page so that the browser automatically scrolls down to the comic.
Thanks for the bigger picture, it looks great! 🙂
As I understand it, the general rule in web design is to aim for the low-tech audience rather than the average. But I realize that webcomic audiences have long since become accustomed to scrolling and I need to stop dragging my feet.
I am glad that even with a slightly bigger page, there will still be lots of people who won’t have to move their mouse to read the archives.
Unless you’re doing a horizontal format, I feel like scrolling is just part of the deal. I certainly don’t see it as a minus, but I may be conditioned by reading webcomics like Questionable Content and Erfworld where scrolling is pretty much inevitable.
Yeah. I’m probably betraying how long I’ve been at this that I’m worried about scrolling at all. In 2001 it was an issue that was hotly debated amongst webcomickers. In 2011 everyone has just accepted it. Which is fine.