I'd fight this fight, but think there's plenty to be done with a design that's technically meeting their requirements, but has 95%+ of the content and functionality inside a more reasonable boundary. The "IT Industry" is a wide thing, and even most developers/designers I know firsthand* use dual-monitors -- larger resolutions for their work, 1024 for their browsing, email, etc. and I think you'll find from further surveying that this is still broadly applicable.
But worst case scenario, you can use the practice in the wider resolution! Scott *not a very scientific survey, I know On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Juan Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My client, an IT company, is very strong on the position that their new > website design should be bigger than 1024px wide (1280px wide). They know > that the majority of their customers are from the IT industry, and therefore, > they will have monitors with high resolution and screen size. > > Their argument is that they want to display as much information (if not all) > above the fold. > > Almost all my designs are based on 1024px wide because more than 50% of > internet users have this screen resolution, and it is (almost) the minimum > common denominator. > > Is this a battle I should fight, or should I take my client's input and > design the homepage for a 1280px wide? Can you guys share your experiences in > this topic? -- 'Life' plus 'significance' = magic. ~ Grant Morrison ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
