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contrid
02/06/2006, 19:46
Good day all,

We are all in the daily struggle of catering for the wide range of audience when we design websites. There are many important factors which one has to think about, and consider before starting the process of creating a site.

Specifically in this thread, I would like to know what other coders out there say about screen resolutions. Which screen resolution is the most general and popularly used? When you create a site, for which resolution do you primarily cater?

As an example :
You are running on a very high resolution such as 1152x864 and you see everything on your screen very small. But what happens when you create a page with a 1000px width and a user with a 1024x768 resolution visits your site. Or even imagine 800x600. The display and layout of your site won't be affected, but obviously the browser will create scrollbars.............which are annoying. The page will also seem oversize (images, text, etc)

What do you guys recommend???

IRN101
02/06/2006, 20:39
I prefer sites that resolve 100%, HOWEVER, I do design fixed-width sites for some clients based upon what the greatest majority of their clientelle use.

xtro
02/07/2006, 05:35
I use statcounter.com on my site. It's free and without banners. Lots of great info, too. 90% of my visitors use a 1024x768 resolution, 99% use windows xp, but only 40% use firefox.

digitalnature
02/07/2006, 07:54
Good day all,

We are all in the daily struggle of catering for the wide range of audience when we design websites. There are many important factors which one has to think about, and consider before starting the process of creating a site.

Specifically in this thread, I would like to know what other coders out there say about screen resolutions. Which screen resolution is the most general and popularly used? When you create a site, for which resolution do you primarily cater?

As an example :
You are running on a very high resolution such as 1152x864 and you see everything on your screen very small. But what happens when you create a page with a 1000px width and a user with a 1024x768 resolution visits your site. Or even imagine 800x600. The display and layout of your site won't be affected, but obviously the browser will create scrollbars.............which are annoying. The page will also seem oversize (images, text, etc)

What do you guys recommend???

800x600 (10% counts :))

also, you can make it resizable to user's screen if you have a 3 column layout (middle one resizes)

hexadesigns
02/08/2006, 21:56
http://www.pageresource.com/zine/screenres.htm

Might be useful.

contrid
02/08/2006, 22:11
http://www.pageresource.com/zine/screenres.htm

Might be useful.

Nice article, although.....

I guess the most efficient answer to this problem would be to do the following when creating tables :

<table width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td width="50px" align="left"></td>
<td>*Content*</td>
<td width="50px" align="right"></td>
</tr>
</table>

Or one could just have one column, which will be even better.

What do you think?

imadzweb
02/23/2006, 14:46
<table width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td width="50px" align="left"></td>
<td>*Content*</td>
<td width="50px" align="right"></td>
</tr>
</table>

This code is also good but if you make a table 800 pixel wide, and apply the align in center. Then try some cool back ground image make it more professional for 1200 pixel wide scree.

xtro
02/23/2006, 14:56
I never knew scriptlance had so many Hungarian fishmongers!