03 October 2007

Wider pages

The width of most page content on the website is 800 pixels which is centred on the page. I'd like to move to a wider format - 1280 pixels - in due course. A few gallery pages are already at that width, and I think it really helps - unless your browser format cannot cope with a finer resolution than 800x600. In terms of going wider more generally, the snag is, of course, 99% of the web site is managed as static html pages so any change is a major task. But recently the timetables for the Somerset in Autumn event required around 15-16 columns for the train times, too many for the standard width. The timetables are dynamically generated using a couple of Perl scripts. So, a few tweeks today, and it's fixed! Where needed, the scripts now produce the standard or wider versions. Sorted.