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- adqt
is designing a website for a 1024px wide screen outdated? it should be 1280px or something around there, right? i'm not talking about designing for ipads.
- logi0
not outdated
- ukit0
No, I'd say the 1024px screen lives on. But you could have the layout "expand" up to 1280px for viewers with larger screens.
- Continuity0
I think we're going to be using 1024px as a baseline for a little while longer.
Look how long it took us to get that far from 800px, FFS.
- skwiotsmith0
From what I can tell, fluid (via media queries or CSS) seems to be en vogue right now...something that will reposition itself gracefully as screen sizes change.
Here's one
http://cssgrid.net/- siiiiiiick, er I mean dope, er cool, rad , nice , awesomeduhsign
- fugged0
640x480 FTW!
- Remember how shitty it was designing sites for that? Or does that just make me old?fugged
- You just dated yourself, there, old man. :PContinuity
- I remember when doing cd-roms in Director for this res. was mad...OBBTKN
- Director Lingo was what started turning me from designer to developer. That, and I'm a shitty designer.fugged
- My first couple of websites were 640x480. Absolute hell. And guess what. Mobile will be and is worse than that.CyBrainX
- Let's not forget WebTV! That was a treat.fugged
- adqt0
i'm wondering what year the default resolution of a laptop went up from 1024px, and if those laptops have been around long enough to have been replaced. like a 2005 laptop would probably be replaced by now right?
- Continuity0
You can't make any presumptions or assumptions like that; you simply don't have enough data to run on.
The best thing to do is look at the stats over the last 365 days for whatever given site you're working on (if it's a re-design); if it looks like a good chunk of your visitors still run 1024*768 (I usually benchmark my decision on >20% of users), that's the way to go.
- ukit0
On my Google Analytics, 1024px and lower still represents about 15% of users
Which matches up pretty well to these numbers
- ukit0
There's also the fact that users don't always maximize their browser completely.
- and not all use the maximum resolution possiblelogi
- And this is a variable you can't really change, either.Continuity
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- monNom0
^ users will resize their window when they get horizontal scrollbars though (generally). so it's a bit of a non-issue.
- But this may mean they size down to 1024...I do sometimesukit
- True, this.Continuity
- vaxorcist0
huh?
We're designing for notebooks,netbooks, ipads, iphones, android devices, blackberries.... and the occasional HUGE designer Mac screen....
- dMullins0
Look up responsive design and the answer to this thread will be known to you.
- detritus0
A few years back I might've assumed we'd be able to design for 1280+ by now. But then along came netbooks, tablets and smartphones.
1024.
It stays