Which resolution you designing for?

What screen resolution you designing your web page for?

72ppi

I'm assuming you meant what screen width?

If you are designing a fixed width site, then you still need to design it to fit an 800px wide screen. Don't forget to allow for the browser edges, scrollbars, etc., which means a realistic max width of about 750px;

If you are designing for a fluid layout, then the site still has to be usable at this width without causing a horizontal scrollbar.

You need to check it for widths between this and the potential max to ensure nothing odd happens.

Fixed or liquid I design to work in 800x600 and up. The thing of it is even if say most of your users have 1024x768, by the time you take in account IE, tool bars etc.. a lot of the time their viewport is 800x600 or smaller as a result. All foobar I tell ya.

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Do you guys know any good article or tutorial about this subject?

I think it also looks better 800px in a 1024 screen. I must admit I haven't seen anybody have there monitor turned down to 800px.

More people use 800x than you think. Take in account corporate, schools etc.. Most of the people at my company use 1024x768 or smaller. Its sad.

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it very annoying. If you got lot of browser helper objects (for example yahoo) loaded up, theres not alot of the screen left. I stuck to the less than 800px rule, and the guy who I was doing the website for, said it looked to small. Just my luck he was viewing it in the widest monitor you could get.

Well thats a nother issue. Most Mac, linux etc users won't use a full screen browser window while most windows users do. Just another puzzle to put together.

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Me personally i always design for a 800x600 res but when i use my school computer i have to scroll over to view my page so i would make the width about 750px to allow other viewers the comfort of not scrolling sideways.

This report is worth a read.
http://baekdal.com/reports/actual-browser-sizes/

I design for 1024x768 but always have atleast a 2cm gap at the top, left, right and bottom of the page so it fits perfect on most screens.

I design 780 pixels wide usually. I keep my browser at about 800-1000 pixels wide (e.g. not full screen), so sites designed for 1024 width screens annoy the piss out of me.

I make design w/ 800x600 in mind. Usually don't make the layout any wider than 760px.

This is what I generally keep mine at. And included a full window shot of Firefox. to give a visual.

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800x600 is also my choice. Can't really go wrong with designing for the normal minimum these days. Just have to ensure your site is still usuable in very large resolutions that are becoming more and more common too.

Of course you can only do so much to be good in all resolutions, designing for 3000x2000 or whatever those ridiculously sized monitors do these days is not a primary consideration of mine really..even google looks empty in that kind of resolution!

800 x 600 is what my javascript prof recommends and it makes sense to me. Can't be forgettin' all the folks out there who can't afford an upgrade every couple of years and plenty of people hold on to their old monitors. I figure as long as you can assume at least one percent is using something, you ought to be compliant with it.

Except Opera users. I hate those guys. JK.

640x480, Frontpage and Internet Explorer forever!

*Ducks behind Jacob*

800x600 is a safe minimum although keep in mind the design area should be a bit smaller than that to compensate so something like 777px or so would be good.

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Yeah, fixed docks on Macs take up a lot of space.

I keep my main point of intrest 700px wide for those 800x600 res's to allow 50px on each side