Web design - what are safe dimensions for website pages these days?

This would be for a wedding videography website - very simple design, but would include some streaming video as well.

Web design - what are safe dimensions for website pages these days?

The safest and largest size I found is usually 800x600. You might want to shade a few pixels under that to give the site a little bit of breathing room. It%26#039;s still a great size even at larger resolution monitors and accurately and neatly displays information.

w3schools.com has some fairly good information on average resolution sizes:

Display Resolution

The current trend is that more and more computers are using a screen size of 1024x768 pixels or more:

2007 Higher 1024x768 800x600 640x480 Unknown

January 26% 54% 14% 0% 6%

That statistic line is taken from http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browse...

It%26#039;s a browser statistics webpage. If you look at the number that are 800x600 you realize that it is a small percentage. However, that is a lot of users you would isolate if you made your site a higher resolution. Vertically scrolling is acceptable, horizontally scrolling is not.

Web design - what are safe dimensions for website pages these days?

Good question. Last I checked, most computers are still 1024x768. It is still %26#039;conventionial wisdom%26#039; to put your design at a width of around 770. Support for 800x600 is not really needed so much anymore, but most content seems to fit well at around 770.

But these days more and more people are getting widescreen monitors... and 770 pixel content looks pretty lame on a 1600 pixel monitor.

The best option is to not even go fixed width, make the site stretch to fit window size it%26#039;s put into... you can do this quite easily with a table or even a div. With some graphical enginuity, you can make an even more impressive design. However, this does not always work with every type of content. If you%26#039;ll be hosting videos, an embedded movie player does not stretch very well.

So, I guess I would recommend fitting the site to your video resolution, within which a 770 pixel width would look fine.

Other Replys:Majority of the users have 1024x768 are greater. However, of the minority below the 1024x768 the 800x600 resolution is used - extremely rare to see smaller sizes and it gets even more rare because when someone upgrades a PC the new monitors don%26#039;t support resolutions lower than 800x600.

For this reason many do designs for the 800x600 for this reason.

Also keep in mind that if someone has problems with their eyesight whether it be age, far-sighted, or other problem with their vision that person is more likely to use the 800x600 resolution because with the smaller resolution everything appears bigger.

It is due to this that I do my designs for the 800x600 resolution.