Retire the 800 Table Rule

[Thomas]

This is stats from thecounter.com for aug 2006:

1024x768 61300035 (55%)
1280x1024 21103528 (19%)
800x600 18625349 (16%)
Unknown 4539013 (4%)
1152x864 3836621 (3%)
1600x1200 890852 (0%)
640x480 336980 (0%)

/Thomas

[MrYum]

Originally Posted by Thomas

This is stats from thecounter.com for aug 2006:

1024x768 61300035 (55%)
1280x1024 21103528 (19%)
800x600 18625349 (16%)
Unknown 4539013 (4%)
1152x864 3836621 (3%)
1600x1200 890852 (0%)
640x480 336980 (0%)

/Thomas

Perhaps it's the dinosaur in me, but based on the above numbers...I'm not quite ready to throw in the towel on 800 wide yet. The time will come for sure, but 16% remains at 800.

Look at it this way...by building for 800 wide, you're serving up a quality experience for 93%+ of your target market. Conversely, by not building for 800...you're effectively alienating 16% of that audience, by forcing them to side scroll (possibly missing your ads if they're on the right of the screen).

In a brick and mortar business, would you have someone stand outside the door and direct 1.6 of every 10 customers to a tacky warehouse based solely on the fact that they arrived to your store in an older model car?

In reality, if you build correctly...your sites will look good at all resolutions. Yes, you do give up some real estate...but you don't force any appreciable percentage of your customers into a lesser surfing experience either.

This reasoning was why I lauched the re-design of FPP to fit at 800 wide...and it looks good all the way up to my screen size at 1280. Yep, some white space on both sides at wider res...but so what...

[Lemmy]

I build all my freesites 740 px wide and I don' intend to change that anytime soon. They're guaranteed to fit in an 800 window and still look quite good (in my not-so-humble opinion ) on my 19-inch monitor at 1280 x 1024 resolution. I review at that resolution also. I'm not a side scroll nazi, but if there is one at my setup it has to be pretty huge.

[MrYum]

Originally Posted by Lemmy

I build all my freesites 740 px wide and I don' intend to change that anytime soon. They're guaranteed to fit in an 800 window and still look quite good (in my not-so-humble opinion ) on my 19-inch monitor at 1280 x 1024 resolution. I review at that resolution also. I'm not a side scroll nazi, but if there is one at my setup it has to be pretty huge.

I probably should have mentioned that in my prior post. Given the number of lists who are lightening up on the rule, I will do the same. If a site is close and is otherwise clean, I'll let it a little side scroll slide...but will probably let the submitter know they do have a little side scroll

[ladydesigner]

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I surf and review sites at 800 wide. My husband teases me and says "nobody" uses that resolution anymore. Anywho, I'm not changing anytime soon but I suppose that for both my link lists, I too will go easier on sites with a little side scroll.

[stuveltje]

i build (oke if i build something) and review at the 800 width, i think it looks better, i wont kick all who submit wider then 800 (that depens on the linksite and how all the pages are from the free site,because alot dont have their free site totally on the 1024 size if they build that way, i mean first page, 1024, second 800 galleries 1200+, i am like the curtains have to match the room, so if you build on width 800 or 1024 keep your fucking pages of your free site all the same width ) but hell some use VERY BIG FONTS ON THE 1024 WIDTH and i dont like big fontsthe chinese dutch woman has spoken