800x600 is gone
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- Fariska
1024px layout. If even the business people adopt this, 800px layout is really gone.
- phatlee0
good
- clerk0
it's official? finally...
- tomkat0
you wish
- foreverwhatever0
800x600 4 LIFE!!!!
- determinedmoth0
That's not what my server stats say. Nor the W3C's.
- ribit0
I only care what my server stats say, and they (along with our customer profile and business plan) say we can now forget 800x600 for our site: http://www.cardesignnews.com
We're looking at moving from a 710 fixed width to something that fits easily in 1024 width...but is there any sort of best width? 940, 950? (Economist is 1000)
- determinedmoth0
I wouldn't go full 1024. Personally I never browse full-screen. Don't know why but I dont.
- ribit0
hmm... Newstoday is like 900...
- mrming0
On a side point the new Economist site is nicely built from semantic XHTML / CSS. It doesn't quite validate but it's 90% of the way there. Good to see this sort of thing being taking up at the highest level.
- v3nt0
with newstoday its mostly designers with fat screens lookin at it. its still way too early to ignore 800x600 limits. esp for non savy ner/comp users.
- ribit0
Me either...always got other stuff I'm doing at same time... Lots of our customers are on 1600 or 1920 width.. I assume they dont have our site fullscreen. We're considering 1024x768 as a minimum requirement, and larger popup images too, rather than holding everything back because of a few people on 800x600.
- Typographica0
It's strange that the go that wide. The content doesn't seem to require it. Even the large banner at top has room on their side.
- Typographica0
Let's try that again:
It's strange that they (economist) go that wide. The content doesn't seem to require it. Even the large banner at top has room on either side.
- Fariska0
We're looking at moving from a 710 fixed width to something that fits easily in 1024 width...but is there any sort of best width? 940, 950? (Economist is 1000)
ribit
(Oct 10 05, 01:56)Dreamwaver says 955. 1000 is enough if you don't have scrollbars.
- fate_0
If 2advanced is 1024x768, then you ALL should be!
(btw, I think site validation is the biggest load of geek wank since the term "webmaster" was invented)
- stuff0
Shame the design is totally shit.
- fate_0
that goes without saying, stuff. ;)
- toe_knee0
30% still on 800x600.
I designed a site to 1024 a month ago and all that space scared me. Instead of
"where the fuck will this go?"
it was
"What the fuck will we put there?"
- craic_whore0
ribit — http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmon…
the second page has tables of the best sizes. This is quite an old article though so no Safari and there's no opera either.
- Nairn0
5 vodafone adverts on the homepage? I love that there's so much space, but I wish they'd do more with it - the Magazine's very well laid out, with easy to access information - that site, although nearly there, feels like it's trying to give the user too much, too quick.
Still, die 800*600 - DIE!