What to do!!
This may not be the best place for this, but I guess it will do.
I've been re-working some of my web-site pages, so they will accommodate 800x600 or 1024x786. But checking my site meters I have people coming to my site running as high as 1600x1200, and not just a few. I have quite a percentage of over 1024 users.
My site has images, and to accommodate all these sizes, and not have them to look like postage stamps. I would have to make them so big at 8x6, it would take you most of the day to scroll one.
This is frustrating, and I am for one about tired of this crap!. I am considering making it 1024x768, and locking it down my 8x6 users are only about 10% anyway.
What would you do?, any advice appreciated, including throwing my junk out in the street. *&&^$%$^$%&T&$#@#$.
Busy posted this at 22:53 — 3rd April 2006.
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fix it for 1024x768 or do like the 'gurus' do and fix it for 468x720 (or whatever the size is).
but just remember just because it says someone is using 1600x1200 doesn't mean they are viewing that much, toolbars, large icon on tool bars, side bars .... can cut down the biggest screen size down to under 800x600 viewable space.
Depends a lot also if the sites pages would be printable.
I printed off some stuff and wasted heaps of paper trying to get the contents to fit (solid fixed width layouts) and copy/edit source was out of option as every line (1000's of them) were fixed CSS sizing. In the end I printed in landscape mode and got most of it. I'm going to make my own version of that sites content (is just a products id numbers and usage etc) so people are able to print it or at least resize to be printed
sarangan posted this at 21:22 — 4th April 2006.
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Design your website in 800x600.. This may be the best way to cover all visitors..
dragonsjaw posted this at 18:46 — 9th April 2006.
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Don't want to hijack this thread, but isn't 800x600 just too small for most browsing these days?
I was thinking, and designing my latest site to work great in 1024x and to 'step down ok with minor scrolling to 800. This site is an artist site and I know she is running her browser at an unusally high res.
I am curiuos as to what others are doing now. I know the 8x6 rule was dominate 2-3 years ago, but now???
~dragonsjaw
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- 'Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
Renegade posted this at 02:58 — 10th April 2006.
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I think the 800x600 resolution "rule" still applies today, it probably still will for some time.
The Ape posted this at 17:23 — 10th April 2006.
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I would have to agree with Renegade. It's hard to believe but some people just don't want to go any bigger. The issue isn't cost or standards... it's preference. The problem is trying to accommodate both sides of the 1024X768. If you make a site that will contract to fit the smaller screens then it will be considerably different in the larger screens. I think the best bet is to center all content at 760px. That way, everyone sees the same thing... except for the negative space of course.
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