web layout standards...
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- lithium
This theme seems to be old.
But i was looking for some documentation about standard dimensions for web design layouts and nothing i found was really helpfull about width and height, let say, if you are working on a project for 1024x768 screen resolution and want to know about the safe area you can work with and things like that. Any help would be appreciated.
800x600 --> 768 (safe area)
1024x768 --> ??
- mg330
webmonkey.
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nevermind standarts!
kill jakob!
- Visia0
I tend to make sites no wider than 720 pixels. That way you can avoid making "Printable Versions". For most people at least.
Plus, 720 divides evenly by 3 or 4. Plus, if you use a 150px width for a verticle primary nav then your content well is easily divisable by 3 as well.
You should always allow about 20 px for scrollbars concerning width.
As for height, not as big of a concern but you still want to try to keep important content above the fold. At factory default settings that means that you've got about 500 px if your visitor is at 8*6.
I tend to use http://www.thecounter.com for my stats because I feel that it gives the best well-rounded stats. The W3C stats are horribly skewed towards the web dev community so you're going to see abnormally high percentages of high resolutions and Firefox users.
Hope that helps.
- lithium0
thanks to all...
this links and comments really helped me. i dont have that 'im alone' feeling anymore.
;)
- mirola0
nice advice visia
- mg330
ditto visia. interesting way to look at it, and I would imagine that's a good way to think about it from a CSS layout perspective.