I've used the default of 920, but I'm wondering if it should be wider?
What is the expert consensus?
What is the expert consensus?
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I always use 1000px. By co-incidence I'm in GA for a client and they're only seeing 2% of visitors that use 800x600 screens.
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1000 is good...Comment
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1003px is the max width you can do before breaking out on 1024 screens.Comment
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1000 or 1003 is good for netbooks and also allows peeps with wider screen to have other stuff in a column (ie i use 1600 - so set my browser to 1200 and use the rest of my screen for skype, media player etc)Comment
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screen width
Have to agree...my stats show 1.5% now using 800 or less.
Whats quite important is the screen height....over half my visitors have a height of 800 or less. So on you home page make sure all important info is in top 750 pixels, like website safety logos ect.
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Your products and sections are the important info.....Originally posted by click4 View Postmake sure all important info is in top 750 pixels, like website safety logos ect.Comment
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We can't be far off designing to 1280 standard now surely.**
**Fully accepted that miniature abodes for the toys of little girls will be the exceptions to this rule.Comment
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I am seeing 1.6% using 800 x 600 but still around 30% for 1024 x 768Comment
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Excellent, thanks
And the 750 pixels being "the fold" I hear people speak of?
Noted
One other thing, a web dev friend of mine queried that I'd set my page to fixed width whereas I've seen many of you say you only use fixed width. What are the pros and cons?
My husband is going in for shoulder surgery on Saturday and I've wangled 2 days off work to get him back on his feet. So, that's 4 whole days to play with my website
Thanks, all, for your help and advice, you've made the process really very painless!Comment
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The Fold is the imaginary horizontal line across the page, below which the viewer has to scroll down to see more of the page.
On your typical modern laptop this is around the 600 px mark.
The idea is that you make sure the most important part of the web page appears above the fold, if possible, cuz people are lazy and can't be bothered to go to all the effort of scrolling down.Kind Regards
Sean Williams
Calamander LtdComment
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"One other thing, a web dev friend of mine queried that I'd set my page to fixed width whereas I've seen many of you say you only use fixed width. What are the pros and cons?"
I can't see much point in having variable width, except with bigger screens you will see more "above the fold". Best IMO to design a good looking site optimised to 1000px fixed or thereabouts. Variable width inevitably ruins a good design on larger screens.Comment
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More control over how your site is displayed then.
Makes perfect sense, really.
Thanks
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when I design my templates for customers websites the photoshop file is 1000px wide with 25px padding left and right. So for a css container class the code would be:
with the html being:Code:.container{ width: 1000px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0 25px; }
Code:<head> <body> etc .... <div class="container"> .... body of page goes here, left col, right col, etc... .... </div> .... footer </body> </html> etcRegards,
Simon Dann Ba Hons, MA.
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