Rulers Wallpaper 2.01 ...change your website's resolution without having to change your monitor's! Additional info and updates: http://www.guiportal.com/downloads/rulers.html Developed by Arie Kahn. Last update: April 9, 2002 This is a desktop wallpaper with rulers indicating monitor resolutions. Good for testing of websites in different resolutions without having to change your monitor's resolution. Place Rulers Wallpaper 2.01 on your desktop, then run a browser with your website. Drag browser's window and resize it accordingly to rulers! The wallpaper appear in two styles: > WindowsNT & 98 default color > Windows2000 default color I purposely included only resolutions with size factor 1.3333, because this fits the physical proportions of most common computer monitors. Resolutions: > 640x480 - indicated by rulers on 1024x768 and up > 800x600 - indicated by rulers on 1024x768 and up > 1024x768 > 1152x864 > 1280x960 > 1600x1200 (see below a special note for users with 1280x1024 resolution). Installation: 1. Choose a wallpaper that matches your main working resolution. Don't use bigger wallpaper - make it easier for RAM. You can choose a wallpaper by color accordingly to your Windows version. 2. Place the BMP file into your Windows directory. 3. Right click on Desktop - Properties, Background. 4. Select wallpaper picture (Tile option). Rulers Wallpaper 2.01 is free. You can freely redistribute it "as is". Please mention Arie Kahn and guiportal.com * Note: browser's window borders eat some pixels. When user run your website in real 800x600 resolution - it's full screen. So, the browser window maximized - with very thin borders. This is the difference between window mode and full screen mode. To learn this behavior just maximize any window, then restore its previous size and see the difference in borders width. ** A special note for users with 1280x1024 resolution. Be warned - you work on a rectangular screen with almost quad resolution. Your pixels are stretched. If you draw a circle on your screen - the output picture of this circle can be seen as ellipse on majority of screens. Why? Because most (if not ALL) computer monitors today have 1.3333 physical size proportion. Test it - measure width of your screen in inches or centimeters, then measure its height. Then divide width by height. You will get a number close to 1.3333 Let's do the same test with resolutions: 640:480=1.3333 800:600=1.3333 1024:768=1.3333 1152:864=1.3333 1280:960=1.3333 1600:1200=1.3333 All above resolutions perfectly fit physical proportions of today's computer monitors. Pixels are approximately quad and not stretched. When you draw circle - it looks circle on other screen as well, despite that you and other person look on this circle on different screens with different resolutions. But situation of 1280x1024 is completely different. 1280:1024=1.25 Why this resolution have a right to exist? What is a damn reason that manufacturers of screens and video boards include such resolution in their products? Because 10 years ago there were some models of computer monitors of Silicon Graphics workstations that had almost quad (1.25) physical proportions. Yes, they were less rectangular. They were looked almost quad. And, yes - this resolution fits them perfect. But not today's monitors. Damn tradition. Versions history: 2.01 - April 9, 2002 > Added more descriptive tag line regards GUI portal. > Added *Note regards borders width in full-screen and window modes. > Added **Note regards 1280x1024 resolution. 2.00 - January 20, 2002. Major redesign. > Added Win2000 default color. > Added space for taskbar. > More subtle rulers lines to make it non-disturbing to user. 1.00 - 1998. Initial design. > Win98/NT default color. > Thick rulers for most resolutions. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. Email me at: ark@guiportal.com Copyright © 1998-2002 by Arie Kahn. All rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- P.S. - by Dave Burton (2008) The guiportal.com web site is long gone, and so are Arie Kahn's personal web sites, www.ariekahn.com & www.arkface.com. But I hated to see Arie's nifty free wallpaper files disappear into oblivion. So here they are. However, time rolls on and things change. It is no longer true that "most (if not ALL) computer monitors today have 1.3333 physical size proportion." I now have a very nice 19" 1280x1024 LCD monitor with a width/height ratio of 1.25. "Wide-screen" montors and laptop screens are also increasingly popular, with width/height ratios of 1.6 (e.g., 1440x900) or even 1.8 (1440x800). So, starting with Arie's wallpaper files, I've created a few more, to accomodate these newer monitors: 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1440x800, 1440x1200, 1440x1050, and 1680x1050. *** 8/2/2019 UPDATE: I've also added 1920x1080 (which is 1.778:1) If you create a similar wallpaper file for another screen resolution, please send it to me so that I can add it to this collection. Also, if you know how to contact Arie Kahn, please tell me. Dave Burton Cary, NC http://www.burtonsys.com/email/ 1-919-481-2183 -------------------------------------------------------------