One thing to keep in mind however is that there is a big push now to small screens: handhelds, mobile phones, ultra-portables, etc. This also includes some odd screen resolutions: 900x500 and the like (wide screen laptops from sony and Apple for example). I'm not seeing a tremendous number of them in my statistics (which may only mean that those people don't come to my site), but in the next few years they could explode.
I just say this in response to the "money" comment - sometimes a small screen means somebody with lots of money. ;^) In general I advocate making designs as liquid as possible: you can use resolution as a guide, but there's nothing saying you have to force things to that width. Jim Davis > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:47 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Quick design question > > fwiw back in 1999 we decided where I was working that anything below > 800x600 was obsolete and not supported. I vote with the "make sure it > looks > ok at 800x600" crowd. Anyone below that is probably used to having sites > look wierd and probably doesnt have money anyway, or they would upgrade > their computer. And as they teach you in sales training, a customer is > someone who is interested *and* has enough money. > > Dana > > Ian Skinner writes: > > > We looked into this about 6 month ago when we started the 2003 redesign > of > > our site (still redesigning, sigh...) Anyway, the information we > gathered > > was that 800X600 & 1024X768 where neck and neck, with the lower > resolution > > steadily falling and the higher one steadily climbing. At the time, they > > were like 47% and 44% or something like that, with only about 5% of > users > > higher or lower, more higher then lower. > > > > I'm afraid I can't go and get the references we found at the moment. > But > > there are some pretty good ones out there if you Google around a while. > > > > -------------- > > Ian Skinner > > Web Programmer > > BloodSource > > Sacramento, CA > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Phillip B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:45 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Quick design question > > > > > > We have been doing the 800x400 as well. We are redesigning for our 04 > model > > year and would like a few more pixels to work with. The thought was with > so > > many people buying new computers with higher resolutions we could up the > > design to something a little bit larger. > > > > Phillip B. > > > > www.LoungeRoyale.com > > www.FillWorks.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bryan F. Hogan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 1:29 PM > > Subject: RE: Quick design question > > > > > > > I'm with Ben here, I design my sites for 780x580. Macromedia has done > the > > > same with their site. A few years ago I designed for smaller > resolutions. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 2:29 PM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: RE: Quick design question > > > > > > > > > We design for 800x600. We try to keep it from looking wierd on bigger > > > screens, but we make sure it looks OK at that resolution. > > > > > > I dunno about others. > > > > > > > > > -- Ben Doom > > > Programmer & General Lackey > > > Moonbow Software, Inc > > > > > > : -----Original Message----- > > > : From: Phillip B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > : Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:27 AM > > > : To: CF-Community > > > : Subject: Quick design question > > > : > > > : > > > : I'm looking for some sites that give info on what screen size most > > people > > > : are designing for. Any ideas? > > > : > > > : Thanks :) > > > : > > > : Phillip B. > > > : > > > : www.LoungeRoyale.com > > > : www.FillWorks.com > > > : > > > : > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
