"Sandy Pittendrigh" wrote in message
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Help me out.

I'm an amateur website hacker.
I keep my screen resolution set at 1024x768
pixels........and I have a website that looks
pretty good at that resolution

But I just looked at it in 800x600 pixel
mode and it looked pretty bad. Sucked, in fact.

So how many readers of this newsgroup keep
their computer screens at low resolutions,
like 800x600?

****e. Does this mean I have to design for
the lowest common denominator? Guess so.

/* Sandy Pittendrigh --oO0
** http://montana-riverboats.com
*/

The computer I use most during the day has two monitors, one at 1920 X 1200
and the other at 1152 X 868, but it's rare I use a browser at full screen
on either side,and of the 5 or 6 computers I have to use both at home and
work, none are below 1068 X 768.

But you can find general usage stats online; here's a good one:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp .
Also check your hosts stats information to see what your visitors are
actually using.

Generally, multi media sites are sized larger than strictly e-commerce or
informational sites, a good rule of thumb to cover all browsers, on all
OS's, is to set minimum width to 756 or 760.

This means your site looks good on the small number (and getting smaller)
users at 800 X 600, and by using relative widths (stretchy, as opposed to
absolute), you can still look good at the next two resolutions up.

Skwala
Who does this for a living.