Hello everyone,

 

It's kind of related to the last topic about centering web pages in the browser window.

 

But what width (in px) are people creating their sites these days, so that if fits in most browsers (Mac & PC)?

 

What is the most common width?

 

Just out of interest!!

 

Donkeyfourthumbs

normally do 700-900px width depending on the project.

Yeah I usually use around 800-900px, that will accommodate people with 1024x768+ resolutions and shouldn't be too much of an issue for the odd persons with 800x600 res.

Same here.... about 800-900px. (depending also on the background I am using)

Widths has nothing to do with browser / OS combinations. It's about window widths and resolutions.

 

I've recently dropped support for 800 * 600 on my blog, mainly because it allows more freedom, and less than 1% of my visitors have that resolution. The larger someone's screen resolution is, the less likely they are to have their browser window maximised. My personal opinion is that 960px is a good width.

960px wide. It suits a 1024 resolution/browser window width and degrades nicely if you've got 800 x 600. Doesn't look too shabby if someone's got a higher resolution.

 

Agree with Racheal - it's not just about screen resolution, because not everyone uses the available screen size. For example at home I'm running a widescreen at 1600 x 1050, but only ever have my browser open at 1280 x 1024.

I think if my screen res was 1600 x 1050, I would hit ctrl+ in my browser so the whole page enlarged and I could read the text without my glasses on.

 

Still, though, that means you need to have the narrower width to allow for the enlargement.

To be honest I think you need to take into account the kind of users that will be going to the website your designing. For instance I did work for a building trade firm recently and their customer base was run of the mill builders/contractors. They told me that most of these customers were on old 15" monitors and 1024x768 resolution was as good as it would get, so I made sure the site looked nice at this resolution and would accommodate people still on 800x600 (I think i made it about 770px wide).

 

With sites that you think there will be a lot of people in the design industry, you can expect they will be on 1280x1024 at least, so you can afford to make a nice wide site, if this is the case I usually go for around 975px wide. In my opinion nice wide sites look great, especially if you have loads of lovely content to fill them with! Mind you if you are struggling for content you might want to make the site narrower otherwise it can just look really empty.

I have to agree with FLY3, I am doing to a lot of NHS work recently and I have to make sure it works perfect on IE6 and suits 800x600.