Comments on: What display (screen resolution) should I design my website for?

By: erik van der molen

erik van der molen — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:46:37 +0000

I must say, it even sucks to deal with 1024×768, I barely remember ever even browsing the web at 800×600. That would be the original chat room days, I think we have come a little farther since then. Today 25% of people use higher then 1024×768 according to your same source. Lets make beautiful things for these people, their reward will be another’s loss and soon everyone will be on the higher bandwagon ;) keep in mind the last comment was over a year ago, soon iphones will have better resolution then 1024×768 and hopefulyy they support flash soon, er?

By: Christopher Jason

Christopher Jason — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:24:32 +0000

Steve-

The latest statistics indicate that at least 20% of users are still on 800×600 or lower. 1/5 of users lost is plenty of people, especially on a high volume site. You could always design the site for 800×600 by keeping the main navigation and important content within the viewable area, but extend the design the extra 224 pixels and use it strictly for advertising space. This would solve both problems, and in fact many sites use this technique.

By: Steve Kwan

Steve Kwan — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:15:32 +0000

Hey Christopher,

I found this article while Googling for “the average user’s” screen resolution. My friend’s boss is telling him to redesign the company website for 1024*768, because 800*600 is “wasted advertising space.” It hurts just saying that.

Anyway, great site and great article.

By: varun krishnan

varun krishnan — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:21:25 +0000

i use 775×575 for home pages and 775x* for content ..

By: Christopher Jason

Christopher Jason — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:22:05 +0000

Roberto brings up a good point. 800×600 websites tend to look pretty lifeless on larger displays. At the same time, a Web designer can’t ignore 25% of the users who are still using that resolution. A good solution, as pointed out by Roberto, is to center your design– though center your 800×600 design. This way, regardless of a user’s screen size, the web site will appear to “fill” the screen. More importantly, none of your visitors will be left scrolling horizontally to read content.

By: robert

robert — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:54:33 +0000

actually, i don’t subscribe to this train of thought

our office has over 40 mac computers of which the smallest screens are 19″ flat panels…

…and, imho, there are few things worse to look at than an upper-left anchored 800×600 website

i feel that 1024×768 ‘centred’ websites look the best (and are more useable) by far!

*remember that 800×600 was the native resolution for 15″ crt monitors (i used to sell them back in the early 90’s!

happy christmas to all

roberto