Designing CSS for less than 1000px obsolete?

[sgbrix]

Trying to learn CSS and how to center a page seem more complicated to me than choosing a page size.

Looking around for new monitors all I see is that the prices on 19" LCD is much less than for both 15 @ 17" so would that not indicate a standard page base for at least 1000px? All 15" seem to start at 1024px anyway.

SG Brix

[MikeHopley]

Originally Posted by sgbrix

Trying to learn CSS and how to center a page seem more complicated to me than choosing a page size.

Looking around for new monitors all I see is that the prices on 19" LCD is much less than for both 15 @ 17" so would that not indicate a standard page base for at least 1000px? All 15" seem to start at 1024px anyway.

SG Brix

CSS centring is extremely simple. Just choose a width for your container and apply margin: 0 auto;

There is no standard screen size. 1024*768 is the most popular, but plenty are larger, and a few are smaller (800*600).

Moreover, screen size is different from browser size.

[moojoo]

Screen Resolution > Browser Window > Viewport

Viewport being the render area in the browser window which is smaller than the browser window itself.