4Elements, Amsterdam, Holland

Our website is now CSS 2.1 and XHTML 1.0 validated at w3c.org.

To check it your self. 4elements.com

Museum for a non profit organization.
We where asked to design an auction website for a Non profit organization.
The whole idea is to use a Museum where the visitor can walk trough and buy art for a good cause. It's all still in concept, so count on changes.

Progress of designing the Museum.

Concept result of the Museum
Used programs: Bryce, Vue and Photoshop CS

Progress of designing the Lobby.

Concept result of the Lobby
Used programs: Bryce, Vue and Photoshop CS

Concept result of one of the rooms
Used programs: Bryce, Vue and Photoshop CS

The idea for the rooms is to use rss to show the art, standing or hanging.
Ajax will be used to integrate the auction software.

Stay tuned for more concepts.

Why does my website look different on different computers?

Have you ever noticed that your website looks different on someone else’s computer?  It’s not wildly different but it’s just not the same.  The colors might be darker or lighter.  Maybe you can’t see as much of the home page without scrolling down. The font might even look like it’s a slightly different size.

These differences are normal and can be caused by a number of different factors:

Browsers – The most popular web browser is Internet Explorer (IE) but there are a number of others. Also each browser has different versions. Websites can look different on different browsers or even on different versions of the same browser.

Screen Size – Different screen sizes can cause your website to be displayed differently. The same goes for different screen resolution settings on the same size browser.

Computer Types – The most popular computer operating systems come from Microsoft. However Apple has a large and devoted following. Websites can look very different when viewed on computers with different operating systems.  In my experience this causes the largest differences in website presentation.

Color, Brightness and Contrast Settings - These settings vary from computer to computer and just like all the other factors in this article can cause websites to look different.

So what’s a person to do?  Part of my job is to keep all of these factors in mind. I look at your website in different browsers and in different screen resolutions. So while your website may look slightly different on different computers – it will look good on 99% of them.

Since I started my company, I’ve worked with many people from all across the world. Ten years ago, this would have been virtually impossible, or at least extremely expensive. My telephone bill would have gone through the roof. But today, with e-mail, instant messaging and Skype, it’s easy and affordable to communicate with people everywhere.

So now that distance and communication costs are no longer an issue, I’ve found that there is a new challenge: finding the right time to talk. With clients in many time zones, this sometimes takes a lot of calculating and planning. Fortunately, the web offers nice tools to manage this too. One of the prettiest I know is Time Zone Check. This site shows me a map of the world, with my own current local time. Then, when I point my mouse at the location of someone I would like to talk to, the map shows me what time it is in their part of the world. I can even search for cities by name if I don’t know the exact location.

The map also shows me where it is night and where it is day, the places in the world where they’re currently enjoying daylight savings, the abbreviations of the time zones and the time difference between those time zones and my own time zone.