10 replies to this topic

[Frantic]

do you create it in the lowest resolution you think your audience will visit in or the highest? I think if you create it in the highest you will just have to change it to work with the lowest. How do you even view other resolutions??

[WingedPanther]

Why not design it to dynamicly adapt to the resolution it finds itself in? My computer at home is 1024x768, my computer at work is 1440x900. Many sites are designed for narrow, and waste screen space at work. Others have problems on lower res, say 800x640. I think it's worth thinking about the fact that some people on your site may have poor eyesite and need lower res to read text.

[Lop]

Make it dynamic and check it in all resolutions. Otherwise, it may not look good for some people. Also, change the text size in your web browser.

[John]

Frantic said:

do you create it in the lowest resolution you think your audience will visit in or the highest? I think if you create it in the highest you will just have to change it to work with the lowest. How do you even view other resolutions??

Defentally NOT the highest, when we design themes at thethemes we usually keep the size at 1000px wide to fit a 1024px resolution nicley, as it seems most common res. However, its probabley best to design sites/templates so that it is "100%" wide rather than a fixed dimension. However, that also has its down sides, on my resolution, some sites that are 100% the width of my screen look plain because everything is too spaced out.

[Blaze]

I've noticed that as well. Maybe at 90% or so?

[web2xs]

1024px (1000px to work allround) is now the norm, although statistics dont agree.

The secret in coding for all audiences is to give them the option of a smaller screen, or full width (for the designers with >1600x1200 as normal) via css and JS.

Google on switcher.js

2xs

[xXHalfSliceXx]

I do mine at a usual MAX of 800x600 or 100%

Percentages are great bc a site like this, i fi was running at <800 it would shrink for me... And for the people that cant read fine text...

CTRL + Mouse Wheel

[xtraze]

I use a fixed width of 768 and its ok for me as my home page is not going to have many content and I use vertical format very often. So, my page gets longer than wider.

[haxzen]

I usually code for 800 x 600 because it really is what people still use.

[xtraze]

haxzen said:

I usually code for 800 x 600 because it really is what people still use.

Now people change to 1024x768 and to higher if their monitor supports it.
Even I have used 800x600 2 years ago. And really hard to work with 3Ds MAX and Photoshop with 800x600 even 1024x768 seems not enough.