What is the best resolution for designing web pages?

What width and length do i make a web page so that it dispalys correctly?

What is the best resolution for designing web pages?

For example, look at the current page.

I%26#039;m using a traditional monitor (not widescreen). Resetting my monitor to 800x600 resolution I can still see the entire width of the page. That means they chose a width something less than 800 (to leave room for the browser%26#039;s border / scrollbar). If they had wanted to get the entire length on the screen at once, they would have chosen a length less than 600. I don%26#039;t think most designers care about length though. With a baseline of 800x600, the length is just too short to try to get everything on at once, and you never know how many toolbars someone may have visible anyway (which take up vertical space).

I personally think designers these days should set as a minimum an expectation that people will have at least 1024x768, however.

It also depends on the nature of the site. If you cater to older viewers maybe a low resolution is practical. If it%26#039;s a technical site then a higher resolution would probably be better.

What is the best resolution for designing web pages?

Make it to a 1024x768 - thats the most common resolution these days i%26#039;d say.

Other Replys:Most people still use 1024x768.

Other Replys:it%26#039;s best to use a liquid design. this means the design will fill the page no matter the resolution.

an 800x600 resolution is still considered standard, so as long as you fit it to this size then it should scale up fine.

770px for an 800x600 screen.

or use 100% for it to automatically adjust.

if you%26#039;re really concerned about scaling, then use em instead of px. 1em is base font size of the page. Usually 12pt.

Other Replys:All time debating question!

Better make your website with a fluid structure so that it adjust itself as per the user%26#039;s screen resolution. Either use tables with width in percentage %26quot;%%26quot; or use DIVs with relative positioning.

If hard-coded, un-fortunately its 800 by 600!

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Rahul Kaul

Web Design @ http://www.creatorshive.com