Min. Website Height?
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- ********
Width can be debated from 1024 to 920 but what about height? What's a good minimum height for a general website? It can be 1000000 pixels, but we are past the days where everything fits on the screen?
- monospaced0
I'd say about half the width, at minimum, for a pleasing page.
- ukit20
Just be aware of the standard screen sizes, same as width
- albums0
Some people don't believe in the fold anymore.
I try to work around keeping the logo, nav, banner images, initial copy all fit within the top 600px then worry about the rest of the content growing and pushing down the footer.- +1 That's what I normally go with too designing to lowest demographic res23kon
- ********0
So if 600 is safe for important things.
What's the minimum if I want to fill a page on the biggest monitor without scrolling? 1200?
- pango0
24px....
www.guimp.com
- prophetone0
start with lager screen size stats at W3C, go from there
- albums0
Screen sizes have nothing to do with browser chrome sizes
I know I don't full screen my browser on either of these 1920x1200 or 1920x1080 screens
- prophetone0
exactly, don't assume anything. people don't max their browsers. design site elements to handle diff scenarios, ie: adaptive css.
- prophetone0
you should be more concerned about devices, desktop is the easy part.
- aaux0
"I want to fill a page on the biggest monitor without scrolling" if I had a dollar for every idiot print turned web designer that asked me that friggin question. Do not design for a fixed size, those days are long gone.
- adev0
I never browse fullscreen. My display is 1920x1080 and I only have 1260x649 pixels viewable right now.
My work monitor is 2560x1440, and my guess is I only use 800-1000 pixels of vertical height usually. The only person I know of who browses full screen is my mother.
The definition of a fold today is pointless. Design your site with the notion it loads at the top, and people scroll down. Look at your user stats for an average, work around the majority + put in some caution for the future.
People will always scroll down, unless your top content is lame, then they just leave and your site fails.
- Future most likely being more mobile devices being smaller screens. hah. You can't win today.adev
- vaxorcist0
I test stuff on a 7 inch tablet these days...