By Lostmonkey on

Hi!

I'm considering changing the theme on my site to make it more narrow. Without giving it much thought I've been optimizing it for my own screen resolution (1280x800), but I've now noticed that it looks a bit cramped on a 1024x768 screen.

What's the 'standard' resolution of screens these days? Do you think my theme is too wide?

www.lostmonkey.dk

:-) Mikkel

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da312’s picture

da312 commented

Most internet users use 1024x768 these days, so you should either use a liquid layout or fixed for 1024x768 users.

Shivian Balaris’s picture

Shivian Balaris commented

Actually, still 20% of users are on 800x600 monitors. So if you want to cut out 1/5th of your market, go for it ;-)

nofue’s picture

nofue commented

Servus.

Most often people are tempted to "take all they can get". Screen estate is such an asset. I think it's very unpolite to demand people to make the webbrowser fill all of the screen in order to see your content. Like inviting a salesman to your home and then he's going to demand access even to your bedroom.

I'm working on huge screens day in, day out, but I do most of my surfing on my iBook. There's Exposé to allow me finding some needed window easily, but in general I like to use a smaller browser window to access some stuff around it directly... Hence I decided to build screens which are only 780 px wide and I try to use as much fluid layouts as possible -- ever surfed on a "fixed 1024" page with your cellular? It'll drive you crazy to navigate such a page in a 320 x 256 px "view"... Even 780px isn't fun, but still acceptable. Maybe I will step back to 640px wide screens in a not too distant future. Fluid designs should help a lot, but they're harder to build to work with all browsers.

The most convenient way for a nice layout which also deals with huge screens is to make it no more than 780px (I rather prefer 768px by various reasons) wide and to put it centered to the body. If you have a well working graphic for the background (like extending graphic elements horizontally to fill the margins) it will look great on every screen, not just the one you had in mind.

Norbert

-- form follows function

Norbert

-- form follows function