Designing for Web?
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- imnotadesigner
I was told from the web designers in my company that when I'm designing a site (in photoshop) I should be designing to these sizes:
standard 700px / 500px
max 947px / 600pxTo me that seems too small. Are they right? If not, why? and what size should I use?
- jasontroj0
Sounds close to right. No need to restrict the height though, that's just an indication of the fold.
- klipklap0
yeah, i usually do 940px width 600 fold
- bulletfactory0
what's your audience? Different groups are going to have different resolutions you can target and take advantage of.
- designbot0
You can go up to 1000px (still viewable at 1024x768) wide. I think it's safe to assume these days that people have monitors that can display over 800x600 and so the 700px standard is outdated imo.
- Agreed.ismith
- But, it does depend on your audience... a site for granny's bakery should probably be a little small.ismith
- agreed, if your audience is older folks, stick with really low resolutions ;)designbot
- The audience is in the range of 25 and 50 year olds in North Americaimnotadesigner
- Don't use smaller font sizes either.Jaline
- smaller than what size?imnotadesigner
- coldy0
A lot of sht internet cafes in foreign countries are pretty low in resolution. By foreign I dont mean america.
- imnotadesigner0
"You can go up to 1000px (still viewable at 1024x768) wide. I think it's safe to assume these days that people have monitors that can display over 800x600 and so the 700px standard is outdated imo."
Exactly what I was thinking...
- KwesiJ0
truley enriching discourse
- ukit0
I always thought it was 740 or 760px. But what do I know.
- stewart0
"You can go up to 1000px"
And you forgot the scroll bars. Cross platform and cross browser safe is 968px wide.
- trooper0
WRONG
its 780x420 (800x600 resolution) and
1004x595 (1024x768 resolution)mark
- mmm viewport safe size is a little smaller I think..Mojo
- 1004 is my photoshop template width, there's usually some sort of margin factored in to that though so it's probably more like 900 usually.kingsteven
- 900pxkingsteven
- imnotadesigner0
^Anyone disagree with the post above
- rocknonstop0
1000 wide is fine. As far as the height, it's not a bad idea to keep in mind that a lot of people will be looking at your site on a laptop which is about 768px tall. If you want to guess where the fold lands, subtract 80-100px for the browser bar, tabs, toolbars, etc. Unless you're G-munk, then f*** it.
- ukit0
Obviously there is no real standard. Just sample a variety of the most popular sites (Yahoo, CNN, etc.). They are all different widths.
- MrDinky0
just got a web designer to do it for you.
- SigDesign0
I just got some responses about our new site and making it compatible for 3g phones... so, does anyone think it's even necessary to design with cell phones in mind?
- trooper0
SigDesign theres some really simple checking you can do to present different versions based on browser (even phone ones) have a look at that and BTW its better to use a language that presents only the info needed (not simply turning bits off in css) as the phone user would still have to download everything to display:none them
- thanks for the advice... that article D_Dot gave above is perfectSigDesign
- trooper0
print designers NEVER understand about designing over the fold - its a simple concept - all the agency work i did was webcard style fixed width/height designs because folds blew their minds lol
- b_electro0
Fold shmold, I think we know how to use scollbars by now.
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