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This isn’t really the right forum to be askingthis question, hopefully a mod will move it to its appropriate spot
Coke wrote:I normally design my websites for 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768 resolution.800×600 is outdated for a start. 1024×768 is generally the accepted norm these days, though some designer are now moving up to 1280×720 or beyond.
Coke wrote:I recently upgraded my computer monitor to a 19″ and set my resolution to 1290 x 1024.What I found is that my websites look pretty stupid on this resolution, 😮 so I want to know what you all do when designing a site. Do you use a % width or a fixed width for your pages?
As a rule of thumb I tend to use a fixed width of 850 – 870px (div centered).
Though it really depends on how technical you want to get. For instance, I test my dev work on four flavours of web browsers – IE, Firefox, Opera, Netscape.
In saying that, you could also implement what’s referred to as browser sniffing. (though if the surfer has javascript disabled your kinda screwed).
You could use this to determine the screen resolution, browser type, even OS and then automatically direct the surfer to the custom css which you’ve developed for that certain condition.Though that maybe a bit of over kill.
Reinterating that these days css is the way to go, learn how to implement that properly and your worries should be over.
cheers
I try to make my sites fluid so they will automatically expand or contract based on whatever size the window is. You can check out my link below for an example. Open my page, then change the size of your window from larger to smaller etc, and the text all autoformats to accomodate your window resolution and always fills the page. As someone who runs 1600×1200 all the time, I cringe every time I hit a page hard coded to 800×600 and have 1/2 of my screen blank on either side. I am not a super web techie, but from my experience it is just a matter of making certain columns based on percentages rather than fixed pixel amounts.
CBW
If you are planning on setting a size here are the stats from w3schools.com
Higher – 17%
1024×768 – 57%
800×600 – 20%
640×480 – 0%
Unknown – 6%The only problem I have with dynamic sizing i.e. width set to 100% is that you can not format your content precisely… so it looks different for each user.
Roo
780 px wide for me – left aligned.
Most major news sites and industry portals are still coded for this method & size – and until they change I’m not interested in changing either.
Yes I’ve got a fancy 24″ wide screen monitor – but I prefer sites as this size as I can have 2-3 visable applications on my monitor.
Roo wrote:The only problem I have with dynamic sizing i.e. width set to 100% is that you can not format your content precisely… so it looks different for each user.Roo
Actually you can but it’s a lot of work :woo-hoo:
Thanks for the replies, everybody!
Guess I will have to test and track to see what converts best
I did read somewhere though that on higher resolutions sales copy converts better if the page is not full size, as it makes it harder to read line for line (apparently breaks the reading rhythm.
