Screen Resolution size when developing a site

[SykkBoy]

Originally posted by RyanLanane@Feb 22 2005, 01:04 PM
YEEESH!!! And I thought I was slow with updating to new browsers, monitors, etc.. LOL !!!

I did just read the fine print and that was as of June 2001. I would assume it has got to be at least something the 800 X 600 users are at least used to by now (scrolling over due to design being optimized for 1028 X 768).

I took a look around and found this, for this month

http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2005/February/res.php

and this for January,

http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2005/January/res.php

Shows me twice as many people using 1024 X 768 - I think I will keep it optimized for them as that covers 2/3rds of the surfers (between 1024 X 768 and 1280 X 1024).

Very interesting that people even still have 800 X 600, I never would of thought 1/3rd of surfers used that resolution. Surfing the web has to be a bitch for them and I would venture a guess they are using dial-up as well

then by all means, put in some javascript to determine screen resolution and anything less than 1024x768 can be redirected to me...I'll take that 33% you don't want...

also, think about hoe many of your surfers are AOLers? did you know the average AOL browser only opens to about 2/3rds of screen size? it doesn't open to full size by default...

depending on what I'm designing, I've still been designing my tables with a width of 640

back when I was still doing webdesign, I did some work for a client and he called me totally pissed off that the site was broken..I couldn't figure out what was wrong...
well, he was accessing on AOL, had his screen resolution to 640x480 and my tiled image was a jpg (AOL compresses jpg's and makes them look like shit). He also had a 21 inch monitor. When I saw the site on his computer, I wanted to crawl into a hole...I lost a $20K contract because I failed to take into consideration lowest common denominator...

Most computers now come with 800x600 default and a lot of newbie surfers keep everything on default as much as possible...stop thinking like a webmaster and start thinking like a surfer...not all of them are online as often as we are (I know I've forgotten this numerous times myself)

but, just they are still surfing on default, it doesn't mean they don't have money to spend ;-)

(I have gradually started widnening my tables though)