On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Cotty wrote: >> >> On 22/4/09, Nick Wright, discombobulated, unleashed: >> >>> I designed for 1280 pix wide. >> >> Interesting. I used to set my pages at 800 wide (to accommodate people >> on older monitors) but have since widened out to 1000 pixels. I figure >> anything that makes it easier on the viewer means more likely to return. > > About 50% of web surfers worldwide are using 1024 x 768 monitors (down from > 60% a couple of years ago). It's still the most common monitor resolution > setting and it's the recommended "design target" for web designers. Of > course, smart designers will try to accommodate everything from 800 x 600 > up, but your page should be made to look best around 1024 x 768. h > > Those using smaller screen resolutions constitute a pretty small minority > and all the rest are using larger sizes. But even many of those with big > monitors run their web browser at smaller-than-full-screen. > > Jakob Nielsen is the authority on this stuff and his site is required > reading for serious web designers: > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/screen_resolution.html >
A note, but I'd seriously look at 1024x600 as a design target instead of 1024x768. Netbooks are booming (35% of laptop sales and climbing fast) and most are 1024x600. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
