800x600 vs 1024x768
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- hotroddy
What screen res do you design for?
800x600 or 1024x768
- jr_fartbox0
neither. 640*480
- t_rock0
the green Apple IIE???
- hotroddy0
Who's on 640x480 these days? I design for 800x600 but I'm getting tired of explaining to my clients why they see white space on their site. I'm thinking of making the switch and stepping it up a size.
- chrisRG0
1024
- radar0
Yeah, I design for 1024 x 768 - that is the most commonly used resolution.
- tkmeister0
depends on the target audience.
- Jaline0
800 for professional, government-related, and/or business.
1024 for personal.
- nocomply0
I do 8x6 as well, but I have also had clients upset with the excess whitespace on the sides of their site.
So for me its 800x600, unless I get a special request to go larger.
- version30
the last site i designed for is literally optimized for dual 1680 x 1050 set side by side
and it looks great btw
and if its fixed width and i give a shit its still fitting on a 800x600 display
- blastofv0
always 800x600 unless details or audience require going bigger
- radar0
I say appease 57% of the market and let the 20% old slackers do some scrolling.
- johndiggity0
1024x768.
- kyl30
follow the leader
http://profile.myspace.com/index…
whats that, like 1500 px wide?
- version30
fits just fine,
- skelly0
i've been letting the design elements stretch past 800x600 but keeping important content not too much bigger than that. i don't think 800x600 willl be necessary for very long.
- nocomply0
You know one thing I was just thinking about...what about the longevity of a site? Think about the future. Seeing a great looking site that was designed for 8x6 is still ok by today's standards, but it will probably look archaic in a couple years....like seeing a site designed for 640x470 today.
To design for the present, or the future...isn't that always the question with the internet?
- ribit0
what about designing for the users? you cant just decide on 'one width to design to' like this... every site has different requirements, different users. (our site for example has more people on 1920x1200 than on 800x600)
- version30
flash css html all have variable width design capabilities
i imagine there will be a day when everthing isn't so blog-like
- ribit0
but a site full of large bitmap images isn't really able to be all handled in Flash right? (taking photo-heavy content and photo databases here)