Webbers Corner

Hey,

I am about to redesign one of my websites and I am wondering if I should bother building the site so it is viewable at 800x600?

dave.

I totaly agree with wickham, it's all about your target audience.

it is a charity website i designed years back - http://www.aldridgelions.com

i want to give it a fresh look and add some members features to it.

i was hoping to design something like this - http://www.amob.com/ with the side background type images but i don't think it will work well at 800x600.

i am not sure who visits charity websites and the stats for the current site are so low they aren't worth looking at.

i think thats what that site does.

i suppose i will do that, make everybody happy Big Grin

Well I think you should add stats to the current site and continue working on the new version, the stats from say google analytics, that should give a little bit of an overview of the audience that visits the site.

i definatly am not going to support 640x480. that is just silly.

i will probably do what wickham said and try to stick to 780px width which i think is the maximum you can go without scrolling side ways on 800x600.

i can't beleive people still use it, it is titchy lol.

Gaz Wrote:

But, how many people use there browsers at the full size of there monitors, i for one don't i hate full screen applications!

i always run full screen for a web browser, word docs etc. but then i have two screens so i can have more showing at once whereas if you only have one, full screen can be a bit awkward.

I saw that yesterday, its so amazing! lol

Gaz Wrote:

hahaha ur funny!

Macs can handel full screen apps. i regularly do use full screen apps, such as photoshop, dreamweaver and remote desk control.

BUT macs are designed to do more than one thing at once, which is easier when things arn't full screen. at the present time, i am surfing the net, watching TV, on MSN, on skype amd reading e-mails.

i don't think it is down to a mac or windows or even linux to whether you open things in full screen but down to how big your screen is. obviously the larger the screen the less chance you would need to make something full screen but if you have a 15" or 14" then you would need it full screen.

p.s. i so badly want a mac!

ericboucher Wrote:

guys. i do not agree with your opinions at all.
sincerely, almost everyone has a 1024*768 resolution on its monitor. above all, a lot of people is buying lcd monitors with BIGGER resolutions. what's the point you may ask. well, if you build a website thinked for 800 * 600, those with a resolution like 1280 * 1024 won't be able to see a goddamn thing!
so, imho, you should just consider 1024*768 and over. even the worst computer today has at least a 17" monitor so i think you should go this way. that's how i do it and nobody ever told me that my website is too big Wink

it is true that the majority have 1024x768 screens or even bigger but still 17% use 800x600 - http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

that is nearly 1 in five people which is very high!

i think liquid sites are the best but i still design all business sites to a max width of 780px;

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