1024 or 800 pixels?

[sounds good]

Anyone know the current data regarding what percentage of folks use the
various monitor resolutions?

I don't know whether to design a website with 800 by 600 pixels in mind, or
go for 1024 by 768.

Suggestions welcomed.

[Tom Thackrey]

Re: 1024 or 800 pixels?


On 6-Nov-2003, sounds good <ras@odbowl.com > wrote:
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> Anyone know the current data regarding what percentage of folks use the
> various monitor resolutions?
>
> I don't know whether to design a website with 800 by 600 pixels in mind,
> or
> go for 1024 by 768.[/color]

Here are the numbers for two sites I manage. Neither site is computer
related but both are California based organizations.

1024x768 9423
800x600 3223
1280x1024 1517
1152x864 484
1400x1050 382
1600x1200 282
1280x854 173
1440x900 95
1280x960 88
1152x768 82

1024x768 41422
800x600 31934
1280x1024 5243
1152x864 2841
640x480 1146
1152x870 1011
1600x1200 896
1400x1050 694
1280x960 563
1152x768 417


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[John Dunlop]

Re: 1024 or 800 pixels?

sounds good wrote:
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> Suggestions welcomed.[/color]

Not in any particular order:

- Post on topic.

- Don't multipost.

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Jock

[Jim Dabell]

Re: 1024 or 800 pixels?

sounds good wrote:
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> Anyone know the current data regarding what percentage of folks use the
> various monitor resolutions?
>
> I don't know whether to design a website with 800 by 600 pixels in mind,
> or go for 1024 by 768.[/color]

Neither. You should aim to produce a website that can be viewed effectively
in any reasonably sized viewport. By default, this is how HTML is
rendered, so you have to actually put in effort to break a website for any
particular resolution.

In particular, stay away from any statistics that claim to tell you what
resolution people are running - web statistics are inherently unreliable,
that goes double for anything that requires Javascript to determine, and
you aren't actually interested in the resolution at all, but rather the
viewport size (not everybody uses a maximised browser window and you have
to remember that lots of browsers have sidebars, etc).

<URL:http://allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeD esign>

In any case, this has nothing to do with PHP, so please note followups.

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Jim Dabell