Design Advice (Resolution)

I'm building a site now. I plan to submit it as a portfolio when applying to art school. But my question is should I design for 640x480, or 800x600 as far as pop ups are concerned.

What do epople usually design for? Just keep it all under 800x600? thanks

If I was you I'd do it for 800x600, then again if you really want to impress have the site be resizable so that it looks pretty 1024x786 too. Just a thought.

Originally posted by Kayflash
have the site be resizable so that it looks pretty 1024x786 too. Just a thought.

how would you do that?

By I process that I find too time consuming and annoying. Nobody is on 640x480 these days. (Nobody with an internet connection anyway) Space gets very tight when you limit your content to those dimensions.

My suggestion is

make it for the 800 x 600 it looks good and its a default resolution................of the PC

so make it according to that................



abhi1

Originally posted by snivlem


how would you do that?

Javascript is one way...Try this example. http://javascript.internet.com/user-details/bg-based-on-screen-resolution.html

Originally posted by NOA
By I process that I find too time consuming and annoying. Nobody is on 640x480 these days. (Nobody with an internet connection anyway) Space gets very tight when you limit your content to those dimensions.

And ya...Screw 640x480...I don't even waste my time on that...800x600 is as low as I go

800x600 or 1024x768 are the two most commonly viewed resolutions according to many of the web statistic sites out there. But it also seems the *type* of site you have should influence the resolution you design for. Like designer's sites, and gaming sites tend to have more people viewing at the higher resolutions. Don't even consider 640x480. The percentage of those users is so insignifigant that you can consider them obsolete.

Here's a couple of statstic sites you can look at to help you decide what you think will work best for your application...

http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2002/April/res.php
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat_trends.htm