Re: Question of format style

Why set a default size?  Why not simply accept the sizes your visitors are 
using?  E.g., if you put the page within a table, make the width 100%, 
which will automatically size it to the user's resolution.

I would comment similarly re the font size:  accept your visitors' defaults 
... or perhaps 95% of the default for those using Windows.

At 12:22 PM 11/21/00, you wrote:
>Greetings:
>
>We are redoing our site and need your professional
>opinion(s) on what should be the default size of
>a modern web page.  Some in our company say it should be
>800x600 and some say 1024x768.  Each
>say it's "the accepted standard".  Neither are members (as I
>am) of the HTML Writer's Guild, the body
>that I think know the most about the subject.
>
>So should we make our page 800x600 or 1024x768?
>
>Some background:  Our site is www.val-tech.com.  We sell
>adhesive products.  We provide
>minimal e-commerce because we prefer to direct our customers
>to retail outlets near to them to purchase our
>product.
>
>This is not sent to the critique list, but criticisms are
>welcom (please limit your criticisms to under 25,000 words
>:).
>
>Thanks,
>
>Peter Bouvier, CEO
>Valiant Technologies, Inc.

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Chuck Upsdell
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