What Screen Resolution do you use?

[Arfie]

1024 * 768 on my home laptop and whatever the widscreen equivalent of that is on my work laptop.

Arfie

[broady]

1280 x 800 on home laptop

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[David G]

Thanks for all the replies.

No real standard there then

I think, as it is a b2b website, I should be alright with 1024 * 768.

There will be so much wasted space on a 1600 * 1200 screen if I contain it at 800 * 600.

Thanks again.

David.

[lloydwatkin]

Originally Posted by David G

Thanks for all the replies.

No real standard there then

I think, as it is a b2b website, I should be alright with 1024 * 768.

There will be so much wasted space on a 1600 * 1200 screen if I contain it at 800 * 600.

Thanks again.

David.

Actually it's best to stick with the semi-standard 800px fixed width, well 728px (as this is the max advertising banner width) with some pretty outline on the sides. Kind of like what I've done here Cardiff Scuba .

I was reading some research done the other day which says that people with bigger monitors don't tend to use full screen for application windows once you get above a certail screen-size/resolution combo. People then start working in several open windows at once placed in various areas of the screen.

Don't worry about designing down for PDA's and mobiles, simply apply a stylesheet specifically for them instead.

Any questions I'm happy to help, Lloyd.

[Neil Whitworth]

Originally Posted by David G

Thanks for all the replies.

No real standard there then

I think, as it is a b2b website, I should be alright with 1024 * 768.

There will be so much wasted space on a 1600 * 1200 screen if I contain it at 800 * 600.

Thanks again.

David.

So don't make it a fixed width website. You can lay it out such that it will look o.k. at 800x600 (or whatever minimum you choose), but by leaving the main content without a fixed width (either don't specify it or use a percentage width) it will automatically scale to whatever screen size is used.

[Dave Crampton]

Originally Posted by wilbo

ooooo.. Dave wins in the pixel stakes..

Originally Posted by Ding Dang Doo

Show off!

Its not the size but what you do with it, I'm told.

Originally Posted by Marky Mark

Shouldn't that be Imacs?

I'm only on 1024x768.

No I use a PC with a great Graphics Card. I do use ALL the screen too, as my job is in CAD.

[nigelH]

Size on this one is 1280x1024 but I tend not to run anything full screen. I need the thing I'm waiting for poking round the side so I know when to get back to work...

You're on a looser trying to standardise things. I use the PDA quite a lot and that's 480x640 and, of course, Teddy is straight out of the pram if your site doesn't work on that.

[Woz]

1x1

The display's a bit hard to read sometimes.

[lloydwatkin]

Originally Posted by Woz

1x1

The display's a bit hard to read sometimes.

There's always this website ::guimp:: world's smallest website.

[Glyn]

Originally Posted by JAG

I was always taught that when building a website to use 800 x 600 as this caters for around 75-80% of users. There's nothing worse than viewing website that uses a high res when you don't.

When I started making websites I used 640x480 and 16 colours for vga users. Times change. 1024x768 will now cover almost all users. There's nothing worse than viewing website that uses a low res when you don't.