Comments on: The Great Debate of Web Design – 1024 x 768 or 800 x 600? http://www.jeffwoelker.com/2007/05/05/usability-the-great-debate-of-web-design-1024-x-768-or-800-x-600/ Jeff Woelker's Home for Search Marketing, Social Media, Chicago, and Life on the North Side Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:09:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: raywiggins http://www.jeffwoelker.com/2007/05/05/usability-the-great-debate-of-web-design-1024-x-768-or-800-x-600/comment-page-1/#comment-10892 raywiggins Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:01:40 +0000 http://www.jeffwoelker.com/2007/05/05/usability-the-great-debate-of-web-design-1024-x-768-or-800-x-600/#comment-10892 At play also is printer friendliness. Of course, print specific stylesheets will help, but in many older configurations when a user prints a webpage too wide, it can make things run amuck. At play also is printer friendliness. Of course, print specific stylesheets will help, but in many older configurations when a user prints a webpage too wide, it can make things run amuck.

]]> By: Naveen P Suthar http://www.jeffwoelker.com/2007/05/05/usability-the-great-debate-of-web-design-1024-x-768-or-800-x-600/comment-page-1/#comment-10706 Naveen P Suthar Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:32:12 +0000 http://www.jeffwoelker.com/2007/05/05/usability-the-great-debate-of-web-design-1024-x-768-or-800-x-600/#comment-10706 Yeah, I'm completely agree with Tiffany, we can't ignore 800x600 users. They will get annoyed if we use full span of 1024x786. Scene will change in few years when the 800x600 will become out of date and almost dead. Fluid website is a good alternate of it but its a little tedious and lengthy work for web designers. Yeah, I’m completely agree with Tiffany, we can’t ignore 800×600 users. They will get annoyed if we use full span of 1024×786. Scene will change in few years when the 800×600 will become out of date and almost dead. Fluid website is a good alternate of it but its a little tedious and lengthy work for web designers.

]]> By: Tiffany http://www.jeffwoelker.com/2007/05/05/usability-the-great-debate-of-web-design-1024-x-768-or-800-x-600/comment-page-1/#comment-9274 Tiffany Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:39:18 +0000 http://www.jeffwoelker.com/2007/05/05/usability-the-great-debate-of-web-design-1024-x-768-or-800-x-600/#comment-9274 I agree Matt. I think having a fluid website is a great option for designers that want to optimize their content for 1024x768 users but will still work and not necessarily annoy 800x600 users. For the particular websites that I design, I aim for 1024x768 but at my work, I have an older computer and I know I get annoyed sometimes by certain websites that look huge on my monitor screen. I agree Matt. I think having a fluid website is a great option for designers that want to optimize their content for 1024×768 users but will still work and not necessarily annoy 800×600 users. For the particular websites that I design, I aim for 1024×768 but at my work, I have an older computer and I know I get annoyed sometimes by certain websites that look huge on my monitor screen.

]]> By: Matt http://www.jeffwoelker.com/2007/05/05/usability-the-great-debate-of-web-design-1024-x-768-or-800-x-600/comment-page-1/#comment-161 Matt Wed, 23 May 2007 22:37:38 +0000 http://www.jeffwoelker.com/2007/05/05/usability-the-great-debate-of-web-design-1024-x-768-or-800-x-600/#comment-161 I think you hit it on the head when you said take a look at your audience. In my case the company I design for has an older demographic. I can tell you from our analytics software that the majority of our visitors (54%) use a resolution of 1024 X 768, however 800 X 600 is the second most used resolution at 17%. I would love to go to 1024 X 768 but the fact that we still have 17% of our visitors on a lower resolution prevents me from making the jump. I look at it this way, at 800 X 600 our site is usable to virtually anyone of our visitors, if we designed for 1024 X 768 it may still be usable but annoying to those still at 800 X 600. The other option is to design a fluid layout, not necessarily one that expands to fill every resolution, but one that works at 800 X 600 with no side scroll but looks better at 1024 X 768 or higher. I think you hit it on the head when you said take a look at your audience. In my case the company I design for has an older demographic. I can tell you from our analytics software that the majority of our visitors (54%) use a resolution of 1024 X 768, however 800 X 600 is the second most used resolution at 17%. I would love to go to 1024 X 768 but the fact that we still have 17% of our visitors on a lower resolution prevents me from making the jump. I look at it this way, at 800 X 600 our site is usable to virtually anyone of our visitors, if we designed for 1024 X 768 it may still be usable but annoying to those still at 800 X 600. The other option is to design a fluid layout, not necessarily one that expands to fill every resolution, but one that works at 800 X 600 with no side scroll but looks better at 1024 X 768 or higher.

]]> By: Richard http://www.jeffwoelker.com/2007/05/05/usability-the-great-debate-of-web-design-1024-x-768-or-800-x-600/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Richard Sun, 06 May 2007 00:24:13 +0000 http://www.jeffwoelker.com/2007/05/05/usability-the-great-debate-of-web-design-1024-x-768-or-800-x-600/#comment-123 I will often go 733px wide centered, and make sure that the most significant text information shows on the screen at 800x600. We try to "be nice to Opera" and it is less than 2%. W3Cschools says that it is used by 14% of their tech savy visitors, so in the real world it is more so I try to "be nice to 800x600". I will often go 733px wide centered, and make sure that the most significant text information shows on the screen at 800×600.

We try to “be nice to Opera” and it is less than 2%. W3Cschools says that it is used by 14% of their tech savy visitors, so in the real world it is more so I try to “be nice to 800×600″.

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