Re: screen resolution

by "Arcady"<arcady(at)jps.net>

Date:	Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:19:42 GMT
To:	"denise" <denise(at)amun-ra.demon.co.uk>, hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
	todo: View Thread, Original

>Is there a particular screen resolution which I should be working 
>on when designing a website?   I have based all mine previously on 
>800x600 to look perfect, but acceptable on 640x480.  I've been told 
>that a lot of people now use 1024x768.
>
>What size do you recommend?

Well, according to webspanshot.com:
http://websnapshot.mycomputer.com/monitorres.html

800 x 600		50.9%
1024 x 768	21.7%
Not specified	12.7%
640 x 480		10.5%
1280 x 1024	2.3%
1152 x 864	1.9%

Also keep in mind that people at greater than 800*600 don't tend to maximize
their browser window. Instead using the extra space to have mutiple windows
open at a time and be able to easier switch between them.

A while back I did some screen shots and here's what's left for design on an
800*600
screen after you subtract the sides of the browsers and the top apple
menu on a mac or the start menu on a pc:

Mac NS: 772*437
PC NS:   773*407
Mac IE:  748*431
PC IE:    774*420

When it comes to browsing the web; 80% of people use IE. 20% NE. And
less than 3% of either are Mac.

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