In my current studio I had to forego my huge 21" Cornerstone CRT display for a slimline Viewsonic VE510s TFT for reasons of space saving. The Viewsonic is a 15" LCD display so it's flat, compact, has a crisp image and uses less power, but it is ultimately much smaller and no good for design work hence I use my 17" laptop and a 21" & 17" dual LCD display at my other location. The desktop resolution of my VE510s is also just 1024x768.

Thus I was looking for a replacement whilst the little Viewsonic can be used for less creative purposes on another PC somewhere. So I was looking into another value-for-money LCD monitor and found that most of the good deals were of a fairly poor resolution. It would not be any good to buy a cheap 17" LCD with a 1024x768 resolution nor a 19" LCD with a 1280x1024 so I had a look around and found some good deals on a higher spec...

There's a nice Viewsonic VP2030b in black, 21" LCD, 1600x1200 for less than GBP400.00

Also a silver Samsung Syncmaster SM215tw 21" LCD, 1680x1050 (widescreen... Mmmm)

So I'll let you know which one I go for and if there are any alternatives on my web travels, but for now here's a list of monitor resolutions to feast your eyes on;


VGA 640x480
SVGA 800x600
XGA 1024x768
SXGA 1280x1024
UXGA 1600x1200
WUXGA 1900x1200

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According to news on the official WordPress site, do not use WordPress 2.1.1! WordPress 2.1.1 was a version that became compromised, so make sure you bin your old version of WordPress 2.1.1 and install WordPress 2.1.2 immediately.

I didn't know this until today and I thought I'd pass it on... to write text in Title Case, where the first letter of every word is capitalised, you need only modify the selector in your CSS with the line: text-transform:capitalize; It's as easy as that!

Labels: css