onestat.com — The screen resolution 800 x 600 pixels has signficantly decreased since July 2005. More and more internet users choose for screen resolution 1024 x 768 or higher. The finding has important implications for web site designers because most web sites are designed for a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. 1280x1024 is #2 in the world.
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positronJun 25, 2006
@Bogtha:That's great and all, but when you actually design websites as a profession a funny thing happens. You have these people called clients, see. Clients are a funny sort of people. They tend to want things exactly the way they want them. A large majority of these client people or companies come from a world without electronic media. Often there is no amount of explanation about 'liquid design' or talk of varying user screen resolution that can convince them that their site should not necessarily look exactly the same to everyone who visits it. These are an odd people who tend to put a great deal of worth on absolute control and that philosophy is unfortunately carried over into their ideas about their Web presence.Now, when these people are the ones paying your bills, it's very impractical to argue too forcibly with them. When it's a choice between delivering pixel-perfect design or eating Ramen at three meals a day perhaps you might begin to think differently. Perhaps in future, when these client people's children (who will have grown up in a world of electronic media) take the reigns or when SVG-based design becomes a standard things will change. Until then my friend, keep the dream alive!
mbthompsonJun 25, 2006
I'd have to agree about resizing being important. There's nothing more annoying than having to either scroll left or right to seen an entire webpage when I've already got my display at 1280x1024. Most of the garbage like that is on MySpace by users who don't have a clue but still, it illustrates the point of multi-res formatting. I would imagine the people that run 800x600 go through it all the time.
xellossJun 25, 2006
I like 1280*1024
gio_pioJun 25, 2006
Fortunately for us, Bringhurst has begun building "The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web" at <a class="user" href="http://www.webtypography.net/">http://www.webtypography.net/</a>He is an exceptional typographic resource.
bogthaJun 25, 2006
> That's great and all, but when you actually design websites as a profession......which I do...> You have these people called clients, see. Clients are a funny sort of people. They tend to want things exactly the way they want them.You certainly do have funny clients. See *my* clients come to me because they *aren't* web design experts. They leave decisions about design width up to me. If they bring it up, I explain the issues.I've been a professional web developer for almost a decade now. In all that time, the number of *clients* who have insisted on a particular width is exceptionally small. Vanishingly small. In fact, I can't recall a single one, but I'm sure there have been some.Does that mean I haven't coded fixed width layouts? Of course not. But the fixed-width constraint has either come from other designers or from managers. I used to curse the clients until I started talking to them myself and realised that they weren't actually the ones insisting on it and were quite happy to take my advice.Your job as a professional designer is not to do whatever the client wants without complaint. If I did that, I'd end up with garish blinking neon websites that played music half the time. The clients are not expert web designers. If they were, they wouldn't need us, would they? Part of the job is to gently dissuade them from poor design decisions.> Now, when these people are the ones paying your bills, it's very impractical to argue too forcibly with them.Of course. But it's not my experience that this is necessary. Think about it - how are they even going to know that a design is fluid? In the vast majority of cases, they just load it up in their browser and don't play around with their window size. A fluid-width design would be indistinguishable from a fixed-width design targeted at their screen resolution, because by definition, it would automatically flow to the same width.It's not my experience that fixed width design is a sticking point for clients. Font size, on the other hand, tends to be a problem more often than I'd like, partly because unlike fluid widths the font size is immediately visible.
himmlerJun 25, 2006
Even on big screens I keep the Firefox not too big. This lets me put stuff around like Google Talk or MSN and a few other things. I have found, recently, an image for web developers that is a huge pic with 800x600 and 1024x768 rectangles drawed around it. Digg rules :)
Closed AccountJun 26, 2006
i have a planar 17" lcd which you can rotate....i rotate it vertically when im using the web or working on a word .doc...much easier to read that way
mbthompsonJun 27, 2006
@rorrisonnice reference to Proverbs