web design size
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- Moo
Im just wondering what scale people design to these days when designing a website/page?? I use to design to 760x600 but think its a little small these days any help would be great
cheers
m00
- RoomFive0
it seems to be the case with most designers yeah...
but i personally never go any wider than 770-780 pixels, just in case, caise people still do you use smaller res screens, so you can't just disreagard them?!
...as a great examppel, i showed a client a website proposal on his laptop the other day, and he had it set to 800x600 res, so had i designed the site larger, that would have been VERY embarassing and IMPOSSIBLE to explain... "er, your the only guy in the world with a screen like that... :/ i don't think the client would buy that somehow!"
lol :)
- Moo0
I had a simialr situation but then i showed the client on my laptop and he thought there was space to add more content and then was another issue to deal with
- indian_pole0
i pretty much do 1024 x 768 (968 x 578), anyone with a 800x600 screen can scroll, losers.
- Moo0
well said
- poomoo0
the move to designing for 1024 has already begun. your decision should be based on existing site stats and technical and design requirements.
- Moo0
currently dont have access to the stats for the current sites so struggling a little bit on that front but thanks for the idea poomoo
- weestu0
here's some stats:
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/…
http://www.w3schools.com/browser…
- 23kon0
there isnt a set rule.
it depends on who the client is and who the intended audience is.
if its a business to business site then i usually stick to 760 wide as people in offices tend to have low spec resolutions - 800x600
what you can do though is to design for 1024 wide but just make sure the content that is outwith the 760 wide is "secondary" content and isnt important to the navigation or pulling people deeper into the site. thats why you see a lot of sites with banner adverts down the right.
a good example is
http://www.foxtons.co.uk/
they use their own "banners" down the right. if you had a smaller monitor you wouldnt see these but it doesnt hinder the use of the site.the stats other people have posted might be of a wee bit help but really it depends who the client and end user is.
you can assume most people surfing from home will have pretty decent spec 1024+
- 23kon0
also worth noting is that even though some people at work may have 1024 monitors - a lot of people at work have their bookmarks/shortcuts to intranets etc set as default to be permanently open down the left side.
speaking from experience as quite a few of our clients have this
- RoomFive0
if its a business to business site then i usually stick to 760 wide as people in offices tend to have low spec resolutions - 800x600
23konYeah i agree with that! :) Then I'd get maybe a little more creative with a portfolio site for instance...
- 23kon0
not even anything as creative as a portfolio site - if its a business to public site then you can go wider.
but keep it secondary info or adverts that may dissapear off the right.
- 23kon0
1024x768 49.45%
stats are all very well but that doesnt tell you if they've got their bookmarks or history open down the left by default. 50% of that 49.45% might have them open.
play safe for what you think the audience will have
- 23kon0
poomo
a REALLY nice example of a liquid layout ....
if you are on a smaller resolution (or if you drag your browser smaller) it puts the right column at the bottom of the page.
very sexy!!
- Moo0
thats a top example works really well
- acescence0
a REALLY nice example of a liquid layout ....
very sexy!!
23kon
(Sep 11 07, 03:33)i'm trying to figure out how they're doing that. i see 2 stylesheets linked with id's of "wide" and "narrow", but i'm not sure how they're switching
- acescence0
ah, it's in here
- Moo0
cool that will be handy for the future