Screen Resolution: What setting do webmasters use?

[ecchi]

RE : "sites should be designed @ about 750 width" This is to allow for the scroll bars and window frames. By the same token, if you are designing for 1280x1024, the screen should be no wider than about 1230 etc.

If you are designing your own website then use whatever resolution you like, it is your site after all. But if you are designing for someone else and they don't specify resolution, ALWAYS keep screen width below 750 or be ready for the work to dry up when clients with 800X600 screens start to put the word round that you are no good. It will make no difference to them that you designed a kick ass site, if their clients cannot see the entire thing on their crappy old monitors then they are going to start putting the wrong kind of word out about you.

[EmporerEJ]

You know, thinking on this topic, But not necessarily Toby's topic, it occurs to me that when I was a wee nipper on the web, Cnet had some "training" course that suggested the best way to design was for a maximum of 700 Pixels.
'course that was quite a while ago......

Back in the "old days" of the web.....Which I know Toby, who is MUCH older than me, remembers......

[Toby]

Originally Posted by EmporerEJ

...Back in the "old days" of the web.....Which I know Toby, who is MUCH older than me, remembers......

Hey now, not that much older, but I *was* there when Al Gore invented the Internet.

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by Toby

Hey now, not that much older, but I *was* there when Al Gore invented the Internet.

I was running a lowly BBS called "Sex2CStore" when Al Gore invented the internet and the great light of the world turned on.....