Screen resolution

you gotta be kidding me

[creative craig]

I was just surfing around as I do :) when I saw this at the top of a business website:

This site is best viewed when your screen is set to a 800x600 resolution, but your screen resolution is 1024x768. Please adjust your screen resolution to view the site correctly. Thank You.

It has a link to the people that designed it, bunch of jokers IMO!

Craig

[TallTroll]

Sheesh, we design down for 800x600, but at least we don't try and dictate to surfers what res WE think they should set. Its bad manners, and that will drive people away, IMO

[Sinner_G]

Well, we did something similar once. A site was designed for 800x600 but no one had thought about what it looked like with higher resolution. Believe me, not good. So we didn't ask the users to reduce their screen resolution, we did it for them: Have a new window open with width=800 and height=600. Not very elegant, I confess, but it works.

<edited for typos>

[Syren_Song]

I put that right up there with "This site best viewed in Browser X."

I hate it when web designers try to dictate what I should and shouldn't be doing while I browse. Amateurs are bad enough, but when so-called professionals do it..... Sheeesh!

[ppg]

I came accross a site recently that proudly pronounced on the homepage:

recommended viewing through Netscape 4
adjust your screen to 580 X 380

hmmm.

[rcjordan]

Not resolution, but sort of related:

Last night, I was booking a room through a major US hotel chain's website (not a booking engine, their site). They were sniffing the browser and telling me that I needed to upgrade to NS4 or IE4 --the laptop was on IE6.

[limbo]

This shouts - I am a designer, I like my website, but I don't really care about you and If you don't like it, then stick it up you a*#e

Might try it myself - seems like a good way to encourage more visitors?!?

[edit_g]

If people don't design cross browser/resolution then they should call themselves:

Mac, Safari 1024x768 Web Designer
Windows, IE6 Only, 800x600 Web Designer

Its not big and its not clever...

[creative craig]

Its not big and its not clever...

Sounds like something my mum would say to me :)

Craig

[Sinner_G]

Not very easy to design cross-resolution if you have to use backgroung images which have to fill the whole window...

[creative craig]

argghhh I just came across aonther site with the same message.. I should stop looking through the sites in my regional DMOZ category :)

Craig