As a webhosting company with a template, I have decided to venture into webdesign. Does anybody know what the largest and smallest size a website can be to look in place on a 1024x768 res screen is? I think this is the most widely used size( correct me if I am wrong). I am trying to work in cms at the moment seeing as I am planning this on paper first. Any input would be gr8 frm the wizards of the web world.......

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I'm pretty sure that the latest figures indicate that 35-40% of Internet users still use 800x600. I build all my sites to that measure. Actually, I make them all 780 px wide (allowing for the width of the scrollbar).

If you want to make the site "fill out" the screen when viewed at 1024x768, simply build the tables with % rather than fixed widths.

Vito

Atmohost as vito suggested, you can code your websites so they would look good on higher res' as well. but if you will have graphics or tables wider then ~780 it will make a scroll bar and you dont want it.

so use "width 100%" instead of the pixel amount and the browser will stretch it across all of the screen, no matter what res' people are viewing it at. :)

Thanks for that....due to the quick response i think ill come here again for more graphics needs

Originally posted by Atmohost
..due to the quick response i think ill come here again for more graphics needs

ya hear vito? you see, I told you... you *can* make a difference. :cartman: :D

Yeah just make sure you tables are set to 100% thats your best bet.

We discussed this a while back... here's a link to that thread...

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=260041

780 or 100% and my favourite is a combination of both so it looks good on small and large resolutions.

But it also depends on the visitors of a particular site. A while ago i created a webpage for elderly and noticed a lot of them were using 640x480.. rare but still something you have to keep in mind.