I once read on the A List Apart web site that a 550px wide text box
is about the limit of comfortable reading, so I use that as my base
rule for site design.
In the end it works out to 760px wide total content surrounded by
pretty colors in the margins.
Stephen Stagg wrote:
Slightly off-list but important all the same.
I traditionally design sites to look good at 800x600 and best at
1024x768. Now, tho, it seems as if users visiting with
resolutions of 800x600 are around the 1% margin...
It is the viewport size that matters, the screen resolution is
essentially irrelevant. It is an invalid assumption that everyone
surfs with a maximised browser window; or even if it is, that it
takes up all the space. The browser may also have a sidebar or
anything else which can take up any amount of space.
Personally, my screen resolution is 1280x1024, but my browser
window is usually around 900x900 - I do not like a browser taking
up my whole screen. In fact, that is even narrower than a
maximised browser on 1024x768.
dd a sidebar to that, which would be roughly 200px wide when open,
that leaves less than 700px width for the web site to play with,
which is almost half the width of my screen resolution. So please
understand that any screen resolution statistics you find will be
nothing short of completely useless.
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