Web Site Resolution on different monitors?

[(PSD) Sergiy]

Sorry for updating this tread again i just wrote some misconfusing [confused]

[austizmo]

Your web page is 1259x1040 pixels? Most computer users have their moniters set at 800x600. To design a web page that is viewable by everyone (or mostly everyone) you should design at about 745 pixels wide. This leaves room for scroll bars and such.

[(PSD) Sergiy]

I found this Statistic, maybe somebody will be interested:

640x480 and below 0.5%
800x600 19%
1024x768 59%
1280x1024 18%
1600x1200 and above 3.5%

I just want to see some comments about it

[(PSD) Sergiy]

Your web page is 1259x1040 pixels? Most computer users have their moniters set at 800x600. To design a web page that is viewable by everyone (or mostly everyone) you should design at about 745 pixels wide. This leaves room for scroll bars and such.

[stuned] Oops! I`m sorry my Web Site!!! - is 1280-1024 (my background picture is 1259x1040, sorry about that)

[austizmo]

Hmm... interesting. These are the stats I was going by:

From: www.w3schools.com

2004	Higher	1024x768	800x600	640x480	Lower	
January	10%	  47%	37%	               1%	   5%

In anycase, if you design a web page at 1280x1024 very few users are going to be able to see it. Knock the size down a little bit, if not all the way to 800x600.

[(PSD) Sergiy]

In anycase, if you design a web page at 1280x1024 very few users are going to be able to see it. Knock the size down a little bit, if not all the way to 800x600.

How about the People who are Viewing WebSite`s on 1280-1040 or even higher?

My stats for 2004 \:]
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/resolution.html
But i think that 1024x768 is most common in the present time...

[theKeeper]

Hi Sergiy...

Not sure what you mean by this number "1259 - 1040". There is no such resolution as that. And i hope you didn't create your Website to that number. [stuned]

In general, the majority of users will have an 800x600 pixel screen resolution. Most folks into graphics will usually have at least one step higher than that -- 1024x768 ( talking PC, not Mac. Mac is slightly smaller ).

The monitor size will make a little bit of difference as to how a Website is seen, but not a whole lot; especially if you apply some good design rules like "less is more", and keeping the text size to a legible level, but not huge. Page layout can also make a big difference in this situation Sergiy.

Bear in mind too that when i say 800x600 that doesn't mean your content can take up that much room. 760pixels is the widest you'll want to go with your table widths. This allows for the browser's borders and scrollbar.

If you need more specific info on this i suggest you search on this topic -- Website Design specifications. There are some general rules/guidelines that you need to apply. And there are some good sites around with all this info on them. Try this one: www.w3schools.com/html/.

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hahaha geeez guys! I left for 5 minutes and everyone snuck in before me! hehe DOH! [doh]

[MindBender]

Two words:

"Scalable content".

Build your content and layouts to scale, or make the non-scaled content stand alone on smaller resolutions, and you won't have any problem.

I'm usually on my laptop, so I rarely view at more than 1024x768, just to address the earlier question.

As always, it depends on your intended audience. If you're building a site for everyone, make sure as many people as possible can see it. If you are building a site for say, graphic artists on DSL... then by all means, build a huge site at 1600x1200! ;) hehe

[(PSD) Sergiy]

As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd stay away.

Hey? Isn`t it ffom some book? ... H-m-m... what was the name of it ... \:]. "Ideality or Indelity or something like that...?

[Erik]

This is indeed a complicated problem. If you make your pages some 700 pixels wide, then people with monitors set at 800 wide will have to scroll horizontally. Many "experts" say that this is bad. Unless you do it on purpose and make a design that is based on very wide pages.
But when someone whose monitor is set at 1600 wide sees that site, and you glued it to the left-hand side, more than half of the screen is empty. Real horrorshow.
What's more: with statictics you can prove everything.

So, unless you are making a site for a local grocer etc, I suppose you will have to choose between 800 wide, and 1024 wide. At 800 you punish the people that are more "puter motivated", at 1024, the ones at 800 will have to do a bit of horizontal scrolling.
Make your choice...