site width

[davie_ne1]

What is the standard site width web designers work to these days

I belive it is 1000 pixels across but I wanted to double check

regards

david

[TraceyHand]

uh oh

light fuse and stand well back
LOL

I usually work to 1000 or somewhere around there, sometimes narrower if I want a background/border to show.
But yes, I cater to the 1024 crowd (as dimishing as they probably are!) if that's what you're asking.

[Duncan Rounding]

I use 990 but some people go up 1001.

[parklifeclothes]

If you have GA have a look at what browsers are being used by your customers and base your size on that.

A standard width is 1024

[davie_ne1]

according to the stats less than 2% run on monitors under 1000 pixels so 1000 pixels it will be

shame the new layout we are doing would look great at 1400 pixels, looks good on my monitor but would look bad on someone running at 1024x768

I am surprised at nearly 32% of our visitors run on monitors set to 1024 x 768

thanks for the quick response

regards

david

[parklifeclothes]

Same percentage here.

[TraceyHand]

ditto that 32% on 1024 here too

Interestingly, the 1280 crowd actually exceed this though with
31% at 1280 x 800 and
11% at 1280 x 1024

[TraceyHand]

I'll tell you what else is interesting

Firefox users 16.8%
This is a drop from what it used to be..IE, obviously, outweighs that considerably with 76.3% BUT over 22% of THOSE are using IE6!!

That means I have about the same %age using IE6 as using Firefox!!

Scary thought

[leehack]

1001 or 980 for me for all sites.

[davie_ne1]

can you please explain what you mean by eu rules ?

[leehack]

Don't worry Dave, it's not true really, 1001 or 980 is, forget the rest. (it was a 'you had to be there' joke)

[Rich Brady]

can you please explain what you mean by eu rules ?

You see what happens Lee when someone as well respected as you makes a joke. Mebers are hanging on your every word dude. I salute you

[TraceyHand]

EU rules state they have to be 780px.

pmsl
I knew you'd bring that up, you stirrer

[davie_ne1]

oic must have missed that one ha ha very funny

they have rules about everything else so i was thinking am I missing something

[leehack]

It's a historical thing Dave, nothing personal to you. I've removed it in case of any confusion.