Ideal page design?

ideal width of a table if used to contain whole web page?

[eagle_y2j]

Wat should be the ideal width of a table if used to contain whole web page?
I am planning to create my website in which whole content will be inside table and main header logo will b of exact table width i tried above idea with a header of 900*140 but when i tried tis page @ of resolution of 1024*768 it looked fine but when tried in 800*600 whole thing looked grabbled so wat to do .

suggest me some tips to control layout of my page.

[benihana]

100%

[Terabytes]

I'm thinkin' that pretty much covers it....

[Tidal2]

If you do width 100% you might want to look at it at 1280x1024 too, last stats I saw were -

Mar 2006 -
1280x1024 12.8%
1152x864 3.1%
1280x800 2.7%

It seems likely the trend is larger too.

[tedster]

I prefer a liquid layout PLUS max-width and min-width. Very wide lines of type are extremely difficult to read.

[gellydonut]

If you require a static pixel width, 760px is usually the best way to go to accomodate screen resolutions from 800x600px and up (which, according to the latest w3 stats, is essentially all computer users [w3schools.com...] ).

Just don't forget to present your content in a way that is accessible to all user agents including PDAs, Voice & Braille Browsers, etc. :)

[edited by: encyclo at 1:39 am (utc) on Aug. 19, 2006]
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[opensourceman]

I would suggest having a table width of 80% - if you make it 100% it will not look like a table as you will not be able to see the borders.

80% of whatever resolution looks good - I always check the page on all resolutions and make a template which will work on all webpages.

[Bewenched]

In pixels it would be 759 pixels to accomodate for the scroll bar in 800x600 monitors.