Dumb web question
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- dr_strangelove
Ok here is a dumb web question from a print guy. What is the ideal web page size, in pixels but preferably inches for the average monitor and resolution?
- VectorMasked0
yeah kinda dumb, but it's ok since you're a print guy.
I don't think there is such thing as the ideal web page size....yet.....but the most common right now would be 1024x768
it all depends on your target audience. Old people would go for 800x600 coz it's easier for them to read the text and they don't care about graphics.
Most people in here have a higher resolution than 1024x768. In my case one computer runs at 1200 and the other at 1600.
- leftwave0
that's not a dumb question at all. i design for the "lowest common denometer" resolution which happens to be 800x600. i like to account for the browser window toolbars and scrollbars and stuff so i end up designing most of my sites at about 760 pixels wide so nobody has to scroll horizontally.
- dr_strangelove0
thanx guys for the advice
- fate_0
Scroll through this:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmon…
- mg330
750x550, centered.
- foreign0
these links should help you out:
http://www.mudcorporation.com/ar…
http://www.markboulton.co.uk/jou…
- badgorilla0
Yet another link:
http://www.w3schools.com/browser…If you design, as I do, for 800x600 resolution, design should be approx 770x430 which takes into account scrolling, windows task bar, etc.
- heavyt0
i read in a recent article that even though more people use 1024x768 than 800x600, there is no accounting for how large the average browser window is on a higher resolution screen. Meaning, that you have 1600x1200 so that you can see more things at once, not so you can make your browser fullscreen all of the time.
My screen in 1024x768, but i rarely, if ever , browse at fullscreen.
Even with my monitor at work, which is 1920 x 1280, i barely keep it open wide enough to see this site without scrolling.