Whats the most common resolution (screen size) to visit you?

[namita]

BTW how do you get your user's resolution?

Yves1 you can go to a1javascript.com and there you can find scripts to find out user resolutions.

Make it 100%. You will be on the safer side.

debttofreedomEven if we do 100% we get scroll bar from left to right which is very bad...and hides a part of site.

Namita

[doubleplus]

Really, all statistics like these are irrelevant. If you sell denture products, you will most likely have older clients who use 640x480 resolution most often. If you sell gaming equipment, you're looking at much higher resolutions. So check your market to determine where your site should be.

[mark_e_i_1964]

Not a high-traffic site(yet), but:

Resolution - % Total

1600 x 1280 - 0.00 %
1280 x 1024 - 6.56 %
1152 x 864 - 0.00 %
1024 x 768 - 55.74 %
800 x 600 - 37.30 %
640 x 480 - 0.00 %
Other - 0.41 %

(For hhministries.us}

[ojo4max]

Doubleplus is correct. Screen resolutions, OS and browsers vary greatly with your industry. So his advice is the right one. Design your pages for your market.

[aventvoy]

Hi there,
As it has been said earlier, building a web focusing on resolution will depend on who is visiting which web site.
For instance, look at the stats for WebProWorld: most of us are somehow involved in web design , aren't we... Not a surprise then to notice that most visitors are using 1024 x 768.
I would also say the same for modem/conection speed. The more "tecnical" your audience, the fastest the connection will be. And the more northern american the audience is, the more likely it will be cable or adsl (europeans are still a little behind regarding these two connections)
So screen resolution and download speed have to be thought in term of audience...Target, target...
How do you say in english? "that's my two cents input"?
:-)
Bye,
Alain
http://www.aventurevoyages.com

[carbonize]

Yup if you're site is aimed at a very narrow band of people then you can narrow down the resolution. But what if you're a big site like Ebay or Yahoo? or you are a design company? Then you are trying to attract everyone. So it's good to know what the most popular screen resolution is so you can aim your site at that while still making it look good in the other resolutions.

By the way aventvoy Americans non parlevouz le Anglais anyway :-) (I'm just learning French so expect errors. lol)

[dugfresh33]

Always remember, too, that users on AOL have even less space than what their screen res will permit. A site designed to accomodate 800 x 600 users will send AOL users scrolling...and a site designed to expand to 800 x 600 with no scrollbars, menubars, etc. on loading, will absolutely lose your AOL audience.
I'm not sure if MSN is the same, i.e., fills up your screen with all sorts of stuff you don't really need to surf the web...I can't stand either of them.

Like others have said, design for your target market. If you really can't pin down your target market, design for the "lowest common denominator."

[doubleplus]

It is true that if you have a target market of effectively everyone, you must deal with the wider statistics. In that case, I'd pay attention to what the big boys are doing - namely eBay, Yahoo, MSN. You'll see that they design for 800x600 right now, although for the most part a 640x480 user will see everything he or she needs within the base area of each page without scrolling.

Another option was referred to earlier - using the 100% width table that autoexpands and contracts to the screen's resolution, and even to the size of the browser window. It's a little tricky to make things work out within each resolution, and it mostly only works well with mostly text pages, but it's worth trying.

[bradmc]

Make it 100%. You will be on the safer side.

Unless your target market is extremely well-defined, then I would tend to agree with debttofreedom in regard to making it 100%, and making the content use the width as dynamicially as possible. Well, not necessarily 100%, but some percentage.

Somebody mentioned that, even while using a 100% width, parts of the site were still hidden. That means you have images, or something, holding the width open wider than the browser's width. Even when this has to be the case, it's usually possible to make the text dynamically wrap at 100%, even though the images don't.

Btw, even though I usually use 1024x768 or 1600x1200, depending on which computer I'm on, I rarely have the browser maximized. One of the beauties of having a GUI OS is that you can view multiple windows, or parts of multiple windows, concurrently. I cringe every time I'm forced to maximize because somebody saw fit to design precisely for 1024x768.

I'll admit, I have plenty of personal low-traffic sites where I use a locked-down width, but I'd never build something shakey like that for a customer unless there was an awfully good reason.

Brad

[Paul Pomerleau]

What do you use to design for 800X600 display?


[quote="doubleplus"]It is true that if you have a target market of effectively everyone, you must deal with the wider statistics. In that case, I'd pay attention to what the big boys are doing - namely eBay, Yahoo, MSN. You'll see that they design for 800x600 right now, although for the most part a 640x480 user will see everything he or she needs within the base area of each page without scrolling.