Hi everybody,

 

As always, first of all thanks a lot for all your help :nod:

 

Well, a question that everyone of you must have ask him or herself a million times.

 

After trying to make a liquid site I have found that it just give me trouble. It works fine in most screens but it looks horrible in a few others. Therefore I have decided to go for a fixed size.

 

Which one should I choose? Is 1280 for 768 the best one?

 

Please help me with this. I am falling badly behind my schedule...and if I don´t get the site done by june I will fail one of my university subjects (and will look like a moron by the way).

 

Thanks a lot,

 

Iván

it depends on your target audience. Rule of thumb is to design for users with 1024 x 768 resolution. I like to use a width of 960px (can be divided by 2,3,4,5,6,8,10,12,15,16 etc resulting in a whole number so is handy for grids). You can go wider than this but bear in mind the width of vertical scrollbars in the browser window.

Here some basis for the numbers from w3schools.com browser statistics:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

I tend to design for the 1024 market mainly but it varies depending on target audience