800x600 px
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- Duane0
i use the 744x410 standard as well. you know never know how crappy a potential clients computer is...
- ribit0
I've settled on 740 fixed width for our main site pages to suit the 15% of our audience who are 800x600'ers... and those on 640x480 can still see most of our content (minus all the margins, but they can still reach all the buttons)... but still making other bits of content with our larger-screened customers in mind (big popup images etc).
- Anetalaya0
good to hear I'm not the only one with post-it not with pixel sizes on my monitor. =P.
as far a 800x600.... that's my monitors resolution right now (I'm home) and I hate that I have to scroll right-left when I'm browsing this site =/.
Is better to have extra empty space wich gives more air to the design and not making people scroll from side to side everyone hates that.
- schjetne0
http://webmonkey.com says 744x410 is the safest bet. But they have included that nasty msoffice sidebar... And how many people actually USE that piece of crap?
- numero10
schjetne, is 744x410 the safe setting ? or can u go up 760x550?
for 800x600 resolutions.
- j_red0
hey guys check out the 'love me' post....
- unknown0
not only that, but his layouts had gradient background (not vertical or horizontal, but diagonal!can u think of that?), and the scrolls had brushed metal designs... ANd the client already approved.
dooomeeeedddd...
- schjetne0
So he didn't know about the scrollbars and stuff? That's sad.
- unknown0
sad, schjetne.
i used to work with a lousy designer that jsut sent me designs EXACTLY 800x600, using each pixel available...
and he was obsessed with EXACT height, with no scrolling.
no news to say the project flunked... :-/
- schjetne0
I have a yellow post-it note on one of my monitors that say 744x410, and I do all my mockups in that size. 800x600 people represent too large a crowd to be ignored.
Though my colleague doesn't care. When he designs something and sends it over to me for slicing and coding, it is ALWAYS way too big for 800x600 resolutions. And everytime I call my boss to complain, he says "Ah fuck that, no one uses 800x600 anyway". Irresponsible web design is what I call that. And I have to put my name on it. Fuck I need a new job.
- ribit0
exactly... but I think the original post was just about what resolutions people have...
We have a fixed width site of 710 pixels width, but some of our content is 1600x1200 images, or galleries where they will use the full width of the screen (using multiple windows)
- unknown0
why the hell a guy with 1280x1024 would surf on a window maximized?
do u surf with window maximized?
we better do designs that degrade well...
800x600 design in a 1280x1024 monitor is ugly but can be seen.
1280x1024 design in a 800x600 monitor is prohibitive.
- ribit0
And depending on your audience you can just throw away all those 'average web user' stats...
The top 3 resolutions of visitors to our online magazine:
1024x768 43%
1280x1024 17%
800x600 16%and we have twice as many visitors on 1920x1200 as on 640x480... Users of very large screens have rights too! we don't want to giive them tiny content...
- unknown0
thnks for the graphs, mc_echer!
now back to local news...
- shellie0
i dotn trust reinvigorate's stats. most of those are coming from design sites from designers for designers. if that is not your target then you shouldnt
my stats say i have 30% of people looking at 1200x1600 but mostly NT people look at my site. but at the same time im pitching projects to non design type people. if the site doesnt fit in their screen to them its broken and doesnt work. bad bad bad.
- JazX0
yeah you have to take into account for dodobirds
- shellie0
just so you know.... on echoecho which stakes stats from big websites with normal non designer web surfers 47% + are surfing on 800x600. honestly lets be reasonable. nearly 50% is too large to ignore. especially if you plan on making a portfolio site that your clients or future clients would be looking at. they will most likely be looking at your portfolio at a normal resolution. horizontal scrollbars are so ugly.
most web designers dont think about that when they make their portfolio sites. it just looks sloppy and unprofessional.
- ilmarine0
yep, did the comparison - the yearly drop of 800x600 and the gain of 1024x768 is 7% in both cases. so, we can start designing for 1024x768 in may 2010 or so :(
well, maybe not - checked out january 2000 and saw that 640x480 was 11%. as far as i can remember nobody had designed for that piece of shit for some years already...
- mc_escher0
Compare that to May 2002:
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/…
and you get an idea of the trend toward 1024x768...
- mc_escher0
Broader (more broad? whatever) stats for you: