Below the Fold
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- djenders0
I deal with this on a daily basis for a major media news site.
The fact is I need to have everything above the 440-460px mark to keep people happy. As screen resolutions continue to get higher hopefully I can start designing for the larger screen audience, but until then I need to keep the lower res in mind.
For the most part browsers don't even matter. As much as I, or anyone else, loves Mozilla, Safari, or Netscape the fact is most people are on IE. On a site where we see 50+ Million page views a month the other browsers account for less than 3% of our audience.
If you know some of these things you'll have an easier time working with the fold.
Of course you can't account for browser tool bars, etc. And honestly it's not worth it to install JavaScript to test everyone's resolution.
I'd start with about 440px and go from there.
Good luck,
Dennis.