How many people are still using 800x600????

Do I still have to design a page to fit a 800x600 screen???

It's soooooo small :-)

nah you do it at 3200x1200 now mate :) lol. but seriously it depends on who its aimed at. 8x6 is safe but 1024x768 is fairly common these days. the only machines i have that arent at least 1280 are text only.

I agree

Hi

Remember everybody is not a web designer or power user. Many people use 800 x 600. our statics show atleast 34% people still use 800 x 600 resolution.

Also 15" LCD monitors are much cheaper then 17". So many people will use 800 x 600.

However you want to ignore all those people who use 800 x 600 ( i am sure 30% you should get) then its upto You.

just my $0.02... ;)

According to recent survey, nearly 70% people still use 800x600 resolution and I can see most websites are designed to fit it. If you want to fit any screen resolution you can use a javascript to detect visitors' screen resolution and depend on it to redirect visitors to appropriate page

Well... I guess I'll still have to work in such a small small space...

Why can't everyone just use 1600x1200 and be on broadband connections :D

Ugg.... I think I'll just design pages for Lynx browsers.... That'll work...

Well... I guess I'll still have to work in such a small small space...


You could make it so that the design stretches. That can come out pretty well. Although, i'm not sure if you were refering to working in a 760x* box, or just having to spend the time and make everything fit? :( :eek: :stickout

Originally posted by Studio64

Why can't everyone just use 1600x1200 and be on broadband connections :D



:) Studio64 for president :)

yes, 800x600 is still the 'standard'. I'm at 1024x768 myself. I build in that but make sure it scales back to 800x600. For example if I make a header in photoshop it's 760 pixels wide and allows the right hand side to made into something that can stretch to fill the screen - at least now that 1024 is catching up fast.

Greg Moore

I am currently on a 800x600 resolution. But I am getting a whole new system in a couple of days anyhow :)

Here are some statistics from April 2002
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2002/April/res.php

You still do want to account for 800x600

JD

I personally design for 800x600 because it is still the most common resolution in use.

I still come across 640x480 computers every now and then, but the numbers aren't very common.

I'm at 1024x768, but only because I have a laptop as my main machine and that is the only resolution it supports without scrolling or without having a black border.

As an example of numbers of computers with 800x600.. the University I go to has a massive number of computers (to cater for the ~35,000 students) all of which are set to 800x600 (although this can be changed upon login.. but it resets to 800x600 on logout). I personally find it odd because they're all relatively new computers (most are P4 w/384mb ram, Win2kPro and 15-17" displays) but I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles :)

--Shaun

I'm @ 1280x1024

I'm on 1024 x 768 .. but most of the people are still using 800 x 600 ..

I don't know why ????

it also depends who your target audience is, from experience say designing an extranet for a corp and you know that the minimum spec of the machines is 1024 then you dont need to worry, lol even the janitor has a 17 inch monitor;) , same goes for say a gaming site, its more likely to attract higher res viewers. yes some institutions use 8x6 but then again some still use netscape -5 and think flash is some hit tech thing better left to nerds. rather than using broad base statistics just go for you target audience.
the only puters i see at 640 these days are post format and their owners didnt know about video drivers. at the moment i can get enough res lol. i neeeeed more desktop.

Wow! I've now changed to 1024x768. Everything is soo massive compared to what I did have only minutes ago: 1280x1024!!

My Statistics show,

60% of all users have 600x800 (using my counter)

yeah, an overwhelming majority of users still have 800x600...

If you're on a 19" monitor with high resolution, usually the actual text on the website is around the same size as it would be on a 800x600, so designing for 1024x768 is just going to increase loadtime and cause 800x600 users to scroll horizontally (which I personally hate)

My site use to be 1024x768 (since thats what I use on my 14" display lappy and on my "19 monitor at home), but lately i haev been re-thinking it and thsi year I switched to a 800x600 design. Fit in all the same stuff I wanted, and I have also seen a jump in users;)
So that's what I do.

...because I have a laptop with 1600x1200 resolution. This means that I can tile two full browser windows side by side when I need to. Of course, this only works with web sites that are designed for 800x640 display.

The trick is to design websites that stretch to any browser width, with the minimum being 750 pixels or so (you have to leave room for the scroll bar). Go to planetquake.com to see what I mean. It looks good at 800 pixels and at 1600 pixel witdh.

1600x1200 resolution displays are awesome, but not if websites are designed with a 1024 pixel width in mind. I hate Alt-Tabbing and I love doing searches with one window for the search result list and another to view the item (you can drag links from one browser to the other).

see attached image

1600x1200 and only 2 windows?...

Man... I usually browse 3-4 when designing...

Actual page in 1
Database view in the other
Edit Plus in the other
And Photoshop and Dreamweaver in the background

hmm... helps when you have a 1/2 gig of memory :D

I use 1024x768... By the way if Im not mistaken you could make your page in all major resolutions and maybe write a javascript to take your visitor to the requested resolution or you could have an intro page with the provided resolutions. Maybe make a cookie or something to keep track so they don't see the intro page again. It would be kinda complex and risky I guess, but it could be done.

Also try using http://www.anybrowser.com which allows you to view your site under dif. resolutions and various other things.

there is another simple solution available in this case. if you should wish to implement it. it is not always advisable to do so however, cuz implementing it depends on a lot the actual look of the design in question.

the simple solution is... one can easily make a web design multiple resolution compatible.

let your design decide if that should be implemented.

in my personal opinion, do not exceed 1024x768 resolution if you are having a resolution resolution. but i' always prefer designs to look good in 800x600 first.

if you wish to have some links to some resolution independant web designs which we have done, pm me.

Cheers!