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fordio
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 Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:15 am Post subject: Newbie Screen Resolution Question |
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| What screen resolution do most people use? Should I design my pages for 800x600 or 1024x768? |
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BradleyD.Haslam
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:26 am Post subject: |
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As a rule, most still say to design for 800x600.
But it is changing.
I'm not sure when it was, but I do remember hearing
that the more common setting is finally 1024x768
(not even sure where I heard it, blogs are everywhere. lol)
It's just a "safe" strategy,
not necessarily the best one.
I design in 1024x768.
But then I check it with different resolutions and in different browsers.
If it still looks good, then I go with it.
Hope it helps.
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fordio
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:11 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the advice. think I'll try 1024x768. |
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MarkHarrison
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject: Re: Newbie Screen Resolution Question |
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| fordio wrote: | | What screen resolution do most people use? Should I design my pages for 800x600 or 1024x768? |
Some statistics for you, from W3Schools, which is to be fair, a fairly techy-oriented site. The figures shown are the browsers requesting pages from the site (ie a representation of what surfers are using, rather than what people are designing for.)
The three columns are
- date
- 1024x768 or higher
- 800x600 or lower
The reason they don't add up to 100% is that the balance are "unknown".
Jul-06 77% 17%
Jan-06 74% 20%
Jul-05 69% 25%
Jan-05 65% 30%
Jul-04 60% 36%
Jan-04 57% 38%
Jul-03 51% 46%
Jan-03 46% 49%
Oct-02 44% 51%
As a user, I prefer to see a "narrowish site in the middle of the screen" (ie - one designed for a lower resolution than I'm using) than a "site I have to use the horizontal scrollbars for" (ie - one designed for a wider resolution that I'm using.)
On some of my sites (www.yourpropertyexpert.com for example), I've designed for 800 wide.
On others, (www.yournegotiationexpert.com for example), I've tried to design for "any width" and it's not entirely succesful.
Regards,
Mark |
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BradleyD.Haslam
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Thanks Mark!
I should have thought about looking there.
And you bring up a good point.
Scrolling side to side IS the biggest thing
we are trying to avoid by worrying about resolution.
And the solution is fairly straight forward.
If you are designing a straight forward site that is 
If you place a table in your page first thing,
and set it at 750 pixels, then center it.
You are set for most user settings.
Your content is then put in the table of course.
This is the most common solution used I think.
And though it won't work for every application,
it works well for landing or sales pages. (and articles, and etc.)
If this fits into what you are doing, I'd try that.
Thanks again for your help Mark.
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