From 400 to 500

For a long time on this blog (years) I have kept the maximum width of pictures I post to 400 pixels. And almost always when I put up any image at all, I resized it to either a 400 pixel width or a 200 pixel width.

Earlier today I decided that I would post that video WITHOUT resizing it downward to 400 pixels. I could have easily done so with the embed code. Indeed, in my first draft I had it that way. But it didn’t look as good that way. It was meant to be a larger size. And 400 pixels is pretty small these days, as most people have nice large monitors.

So I’ve decided to make my new maximum a 500 pixel width. And maybe… maybe… I won’t always resize everything to 500 and 250. :-) Always having things the same size made sense way back when my site had a fixed width… but now I have it adjust with the size of the user’s window, so “filling the column” is no longer what is happening anyway in most cases.

Now, this probably will still be problematic to some of my readers. I believe my mom, for instance, likes to keep her monitor set at an 800×600 resolution. A size I can barely even imagine living with any more. She may have to horizontal scroll a bit. I am sorry mom.

I’m not sure. I may end up regretting this decision and reverting. But alternately I think it will give me a bit of breathing room.

We shall see.

If any of my readers actually have a strong opinion on this (which I doubt) let me know, and I may take your opinions into account.