What size to build my website?

crazihos · 10-08-06

Hi,

I'm just re-designing a site of mine and wondered how many customers I may lose if I design it to 1024x760 without making the tables shrink etc...for people with different screen settings?

I normally design my pages 760 wide to cater for all but has it finally become acceptable to build wider pages these days?

What are your thoughts?

Cheers

Russ

Rich · 10-08-06

From my stats about 10% use 800x600, this shows 20% in Jan and this shows 17%. That's a lot of users to discard.

mikey_freedom · 10-08-06

800x600 any day for me while there's still a % of people using it. I don't want to start alienating potential customers just because they are at a lower resolution (they may even be in the market for a spanking new screen!) In this climate I think every visitor is hard fought over to win to a site and I certainly wouldn't want to lose any % of them. Sites made for 800x600 will look okay at higher res, but the opposite way doesn't hold true - nobody likes to scroll back and forth across their screen. It's just a big turn off and many of those who have to will think you are at fault not their low screen res.

Northern Monkey · 10-08-06

I'd go with using tables and percentages in the widths so that people of any size screen can see it. Just make sure that your important menu's etc are static widths.

NM.

jonsp · 10-08-06

It's not just the number of people with only 800*600 displays - lot's of people on higher res don't have their browser window maximised and/or have their favourites bar/media bar etc open. It's way too large a demographic to ignore.

Jon

Nosmo_King · 10-08-06

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonsp

It's not just the number of people with only 800*600 displays - lot's of people on higher res don't have their browser window maximised and/or have their favourites bar/media bar etc open. It's way too large a demographic to ignore.

Jon

Using 21" Hi Res monitors here. I want more windows - not bigger ones. 760/780 is the way to go.

HarveyC · 10-08-06

Use auto-resizing tables if you're unfamiliar with tableless CSS.

Eg, instead of setting a table width to "750px", set it to "95%". That way, your site will look good on all screen sizes