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Which screen resolution is the most common??
I'll be optimizing my website for that resolution.
Thanx in advance.
I wouldn't worry about the very biggest resolutions - it's not common for people to run a browser at full screen at those resolutions. But I think you need to account for both the 1024 and the 800 user in your design.
The 4% that use Netscape 4.x
The 4% that use 640x480
The 4% that use 256 colours
What is the crossover?
I don't mind making the odd compromise to net the 4% of users that are still with the old Netscape - but I am not prepared to do 640x48, 256 colors AND Netscape 4.x
If this reduces the Netscape 4.x target group to 1 or 2% then 's*d 'em' and IE only from now on.
thoughts anyone?
The overwhelming factor for most of our clients is cost, and as time is money, we have to be as quick as possible. This means that we have to build sites that reach as many people as possible, in the shortest time we can
Can't in the majority of cases. We use a proprietory tool for a lot of design work which forces us to do things a certain way. Within its limits its a great tool, lets us design, say a 10 page website in 2 days, handles the uploads, lets the end user self-maintain the site easily, and has built in e-commerce facilities for those that want them
Over time we've learned to make the tool do a lot of things, but total flexibility would require either a ground-up software rewrite (not likely) or we have do do a lot of customisation, which ends up taking as long as scratch building the site.
We are staring to get into DreamWeaver more and more, and I have scratch built some stuff, but only when the requirement (and the money) is there
Just changed to 640*480 for fun (it was like being at legoland) and even WmW doesn't fit. It was a good 20% too wide due to the links at the bottom of each thread ('printer friendly version', 'flag this post' etc). Push the text size and things go even more wonky....
Accepted, however, that the WmW audience are probably mostly running at 6400*4200 on 52" wall-mounted plasma screens;)
Well Joshie, guess I should rebuild my site for those plasma screens... Thanx all for the tip, the link to w3schools.com is great!
I would guess it's quite high. It's the "haven't upgraded in a few years" set...
Then again, I comfort myself knowing that probably more than 75% of the internet looks strange at 640x480. I try to design everything for 800x600... all of my pages can shrink down to 700 pixels without TOO much trouble, and I try to keep them from looking too strange at 1024. Above 1024, I assume most people are running their browsers at partial screen width. (I run my browser at approx. 2/3 screen width on a 1024 screen most of the time...)
A little while ago I visited a prospective client and we viewed my portfolio site in his office. He was running AOL 3 on Windows 3.1
I didn't get the job - he thought my work was ugly.
