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Neil Joseph

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I designed a website for my dad. He sent an e-mail to some expert who said that the site needed to be more resolution friendly (for 640x480, 800x600 etc and up). It was initially designed for 1024x768, so I redesigned it for 800x600 (to heck with 640x480 I thought!!)
My question is, what resolution do you use? If I designed the site for 800x600 optimum, is that a problem to any users out there. I assume that most people know how to switch resolutions but there may be some that don't know how.
Here is the site... Winston's Custom Guitars.
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Mark Dubbelboer

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I'm 1024*768 at work and it drives me insane.
I'm at some weird number like 1280*1024 at home and i love it. Might as well take advantage of my eyesight while i have it right;)
 

ChrisV

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1024 x 768 at home

1280 x 1024 at work

I think it depends on your target audience. A lot of people who are less "computer savvy" will have their resolution set at 640 x 480 still. In fact I have a friend who claims he can't read his screen if he sets it any higher. It drives me nuts, but he's a strange fellow.
 

Alex Spindler

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1024x768 at work and 1600x1200 at home. I love this resolution. Give it a week and several of you will convert.
 

Graeme Clark

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1280x1024 - Love this monitor.

XP will not actually let me go lower than 800x600 through the display panel anymore.

When I design pages, I try to make it look as good as possible in all resolutions, which usually means tables that use a % instead of a fixed pixel width while trying to keep 640x480 as viewable as possible (but sometimes scroll bars are impossible to avoid).

I used to work on a number of gaming sites, and would get, from time to time, complaints that the site doesn't look good in 640. You'd think gamers, if anyone, would keep the res up as high as possible.
 

Darren H

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Neil, here's a helpful link:
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2001/November/res.php
It provides monthly statistics on things like resolution, browsers, traffic, etc. Here's the breakdown for November:
800x600 - 54%
1024x768 - 33%
640x480 - 4%
1280x1024 - 3%
1152x864 - 2%
unknown - 1%
1600x1200 - less than 1%
Design for 800x600 and your safe with all but 4% of the population.
 

Kurt B

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1280x1024 both at the office and home.

I design for 800x600 mostly, but try to use non-fixed pixel when possible.
 

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