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12-02-2003, 12:37 PM
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What screen resolution do you optmize for?
What screen resolution do you optmize for? Because it seems like 1024x768 is vary popular and I always optmize for 800x600 just because thats is what I have always been told to do. But most of the people visiting my site are at
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31 800x600
31 1024x768
24 1152x864
9 1280x1024
5 1600x1200
Well today is not a good example but 75-80% of the time more people are using 1024x768.
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12-02-2003, 02:08 PM
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just make it the width no more than like 759px i think most are on 1024
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12-02-2003, 04:25 PM
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800x600 is always a safe bet.
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12-02-2003, 05:00 PM
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I always make mine 748 width....
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12-02-2003, 05:13 PM
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I make mine width for 800 X 600 but some times I use long pages, some sites I do full 800 X 600 sot the whole site is visible at that res.
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12-02-2003, 06:52 PM
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12-03-2003, 05:54 AM
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800x600 <-> 16200x1200
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12-03-2003, 07:11 AM
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16200? is that like 10 monitors wide?
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12-03-2003, 12:20 PM
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12-03-2003, 12:35 PM
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All my layouts are 750x500. There are still quite a few users who use 800x600 and while this fact remains I will always design for this resolution.
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12-04-2003, 07:27 PM
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I use 800 x 600 most of the time but i always use a background so that it looks ok with 1024 x 786.
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12-05-2003, 04:33 AM
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I like flexible layouts, why design for one resolution when u can design for them all!
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12-05-2003, 09:00 AM
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design for 800x600. Amazingly there are still people out there who don't have bigger monitors. OR you could design in percents. Little bit trickier
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12-17-2003, 10:56 AM
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by LazyJim
I like flexible layouts, why design for one resolution when u can design for them all!
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Finally someone said it.
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12-17-2003, 12:43 PM
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12-18-2003, 09:22 PM
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i try to use tables that move according to screen size.
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12-23-2003, 10:23 AM
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I normaly try to design for all sizes. The most recent statistics still suggest that the majority of web surfers still use 800x600 however ( with 1024x768 not far behind ), so it may be worth considering.
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2003/May/res.php
The best way i've found for designing so far that doesn't involve using javascript, is to just design your site so that it uses up the entire screen on 800x600 (and perhaps some less important parts is cutoff), that way at higher reses it won't be too small.
As soon as dynamic sizing starts to get better support, resolutions will be much less of a problem
Keith
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12-23-2003, 03:59 PM
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2 things...
1)
when talking about the statistics for the most common browser sizes, there is no one "winner" that you must design for.
if, for example, 50% use 800 by 600, and you choose to design for that size only, you've just thrown away the other 50% of people that use larger or smaller screen sizes. In reality I know we don't exlude the other resolutions from the site, but they are ignored in the layout design. Which is the same as ignoring your responsibility (to an extent at least).
Anyway I was just trying to say statistics look at the proportions of screen resolution usage, so when making necasary compromises in layout design, you should not make one-direction in favour of the single most popular resolution, but distribute it in the proportions show by the statsistics. (Assuming you can't design a solution that doesn't need to make any compromises).
2) The biggest compromise made by the layout design, is made for non-visual devices, such as text readers, braille printers, mobile phones. A well desinged site will make perfect sense when all layout, style, and formatting mark-up is removed.
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