How wide?
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- stewart0
bookmark this one
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonk…
- RoomFive0
770 pixels wide.
Because you have to bear in mind that there are some arquad buggers in the world that still have their screen res set at 800x600. And you also have to take into account the width of the scrollbar on the right of the page... so 770 pixels.
- Witt0
i'd throw in just +1px for good luck.
- RoomFive0
... And saying most people have their screen res set at 1024x768 as some of my mates think is bull****
... As a lot of people have no idea HOW to change their screen settings... you have to consider the fact that most people have no idea what they are doing with computers... and not everyone that looks at websites are computer literate! :/
- Witt0
i don't know RoomFive, but the large majority computers i see everywhere (office, schools, homes, etc) are usually set to 1024. of course what i see (or where i move) cannot possibly give me a reliable stats but it gives you the feeling that 1024 is a common res. even for non-related computer people who use it in their jobs, etc.
- RoomFive0
Yeah Witt, I agree that 1024 is the probably the most common res, and in 'my opinion' the optimal res... but there are defo still people using 800x600 res unfortunately... and I personally don't think you can just discount those people... as they are a potential customer of your clients site just as much as the next guy with his 1024x768 screen... if you see what I mean?
- Witt0
no doubt. 800 is safer. and after all, the sites who are designed for an unspecificed audience, like an e-shop or e-bank etc usually don't need such a spiffy design, so what you need to put in there goes perfectly well within 800.
- jamble0
Even though a lot of people still don't know how to change the display settings, I think it's fairly safe to say that for the last couple of years, anyone who's bought a computer will already have it set at 1024/768 by default.
I guess it's all down to your target market though and how you want to treat them in terms of making assumptions about their viewing settings.
- stewart0
to be sure you can always follow http://www.guimp.com/
- ants0
800 wide is not necessarily standard but it's nice.
Go for a resolution of 1024*768 and fit within that minus the browser width
- ewirtz0
I find that 972x575 works well at 1024
- version30
990 max
- OSFA0
thanks guys, as always your input is very helpful...
- mpfree0
as long as my old one eye
10 inches
- Witt0
Do not ask what the pixels can do for you ask what you can do for your pixels.
- kelpie0
cater for everybody - make it 750/760 wide...
- OSFA0
hahaha
I am sure mpfree
- Nairn0
As of August, I'm a 1024 kinda guy, so I'm making things at 970 or 980 (haven't quite decided how big to go).
'most' people run at least 1024 these days, unless you're targetting foreign countries, schools, shitty ends of the gov't, etc, you should be fairly safe.
Regardless, you should try to make the design work best at all resolutions - you could hang adverts on the right side, to be hidden on lo res monitors (who wants to target poor people anyway?)
Ultimately, listen to Jakob
(nnngh)
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/sc…nairn,
(an ex-standards fascist.)Oh and for any literalists out there - I don't really hold that view about poor people - I think they should all be drowned at birth or at the very least, chemically retarded in utero, to better fit society's needs)
- kelpie0
couldn't possibly agree on the dimensions of a webpage, Nairn, on that we are diametrically opposed, love your ideas on sterilising the poor though, that's my kind of thinking...