I always get into arguments with people about this. <br> <br>When designing web pages what do you use?<br> <br> <br>I really dont give a damn for 800x600.<br> <br>Tell me what do you think?

sadly to say, that of a year ago, studies showed that approx 70% of users have their resolution set at 800x600. dont ask me why... i just dont like icons that are 4 inches tall, so i use 10x7.<br><br>when building a website, you have to think about the majority of the people who will be viewing the site.<br><br>if its the general public, go with an 8x6. the max viewing horizontally is approx 770 px wide, taking in the border of the browser and scrollbar.<br><br>if you are building a site for a company for internal use, like an intranet (which i used to do), i had the guys in the network dept run a little prog that would set all users to 10x7, without it being changable. so i created an intranet that used the extra space.<br><br>OR...<br><br>instead of hard coding the widths, use percents. for example, if you took this site, the nav on the side could be 15 or 20%, and the main window would be, respectively, 85 or 80%.<br><br>so play around with it. if you need any more info, feel free to ask.

Great reference site, CODE. <br><br>I do all my sites for clients at 8 x 6. The statistics show that to be the best still (surprisingly enough!).<br><br>And the "Floating boarders" (ie: using % instead of fixed pixel size) is a good way to work around this. So that was another good idea.<br><br>If you are building ONE site for the whole world to view, you gotta go with the flow!

i design for both. At the index page, I allow the user to decide which size fits them best. THEY CHOOSE. This does make double the work...but for some sites this is good. For many...you can only design in one size. So depending upon the situation and if it doesnt interfere with with the companys project goals...i like to design for both.

You should use only percent values, and make all of the images scale too. Also, you can detect the size of the clients browser window with Javascript most of the time.

I did that on my old site. <br>First it got the resolution,<br>then it loaded 800x600 version, 1024x768 or 1158x856 or whatever it is.