I was curious as to how many of you design your sites to a specific screen standard. I have my width at about 780 pixels which requires maybe just a small portion of scrolling to the left at 800X600. Do you think that will be problematic?

Hi,

I prefer width at about 700. Any horizontal scrolling is problematic in my opinion :)

Stay away from horizontal scrolling...use 100% tables instead

I design my sites for most of the content to be viewable ard 750x420, that's the maximum viewing area of a browser that uses 800x600.

Hi,

At work (I work for a web development company) we have to deal with designs from external companies that have more to do with print design than content/database driven web sites. We also have to deal with short development times. As a result everything is designed for 800 by 600 which looks really small in the type of resolutions I use... less than a quarter of the screen.

Personnally I would recommend using percentages - even adapting the layout depending on the resolution. It may take a lot of work and planning to get them to work and look properly but it is worth it in the end. You'll have a lot less work to do in the future! :)

We use percentages on over 90% of all designs. There are some that just work better with fixed pixels. But, there are more and more screen sizes and resolutions in play and just too big of a chance of having to scroll or looking ridiculously small.

Jello sites are nice, but sometimes you need to have a fixed site. Especially content sites. You need to have a small text width, otherwise it's a lot harder to read.