[thelist] Page width and good web design

[Tony Crockford]

At 11:27 on Tuesday, 29 Jun 2004, Richard Osborne wrote:

> With 39% of people still using 800x600 or lower that doesn't seem too  
> clever
> an idea ...
>
> Source: http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2004/May/res.php

and those stats don't pick up people like me that have triple displays at  
1024*768 but browse with Opera or Firefox with side panels open so that  
the browser window is around 800px wide.

and on my Laptop, which is some obscure (1400?) size I usually size  
windows to 800*600 to have more on screen at the same time.

It has to be said also that with reasonable amounts of browser chrome the  
maximum size for a 1024*768 res page is 955x600

source: http://www.wpdfd.com/browsergrid.htm

hth