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Relational Scaling

Thoughtful Design: Relational Scaling

This has become one of my signatures, so it is about time I write something about it. The basic motivation is the rapid improvements in resolutions and screen sizes. This has made it difficult for developers to know what size resolution they should be developing for. In the old days a lot of developers would develop for an 800x600 screen. Later that switched to 1024x768, but the underlying problem is still present. How do you develop a site that will evolve with the technology.

SIFT LLC

This site is another one of my 'one day' sites. I was given a design in the morning and shipped the site at the end of the day. As with most of my sites, it has relational scaling (change the font size and the entire site scales). I have also implemented a relational scaling image map with this site as well. All in all, not bad for a days work...

Eurotrip

This is the site that has been keeping me busy for the most part. This site is built on Drupal 5 and has a lot of custom modules. It also has built in relational scaling, but does not have the little slider widget for a user cue. There is still a lot slated for this project and it is in heavy development. I am working with a bunch of APIs and Web Services on this site and will soon be releasing a bunch of new functionality.

Syntenic

This is the company I work with. I built this site using Drupal 6 and basically designed the theme from scratch. Notice (and play with) the slider in the top right of the site. This is a technique I have been using quite a bit for making sure that sites can scale to appropriate sizes for all screen resolutions.
This site has been depreciated.

 
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