What's your screen width (poll)

I want my web site to fit in in most screens used by residents of Second Life™. Please tell me the width of the screen you use:

Cheapie dell widescreen here, one of the small ones, 1650 x 1080.

Mine's 20" (1680x1050). How big's yours

1920 x 1280

I have the Dell 30". What a difference in the SL experience!!!!

1024x768.

1680 for the laptop, and 1920 for the desktop.

But, I surf in windows that aren't full screen. I would reasonably say that most times browser windows are between 800 and 1000 pixels wide.

Here's a site with good suggestions on choosing a 'size' for your web site. I would also keep in mind that handheld surfing is becoming more common, (don't know what your site will be about and if people will be accessing it while away from home).

http://www.websitebytes.com/articles/viewarticle.php?id=screenresolution

I run my system with two screens arranged in a side-by-side format, so my maximum width is 2720 pixels (depth is only 1024 though).

However I keep my browser set to no more than 3/4 the width of one screen, as I often want to have access to the icons and stuff down the edge of the desktop.

Unless I am mistaken, what you are asking isn't really what the specs of the hardware is, but how much screen real-estate is available for web browsing. So I voted for 'more than 800 but less than 1024'.

-Atashi

Mine is set at 1024x768. I suspect most people are at a lot higher setting than that. This is a good compromise for me between image quality and my ability to read around the big floater thing in my eye that, I'm told, will move out of the way in a few years.

But I think web sites are also compromised by our browser settings. When I can't read a web page, I can always hit CTRL+ in Firefox to make the font bigger, which sometimes rearranges the web designer's carefully planned layout. Sorry.

Two things I hate about web sites:

1 - It's designed for a certain screen resolution so I have run my browser maximized. Not everybody has a high resolution monitor. Not everybody who has a high resolution monitor wants to run their browser "big". Design your web site to look good at various sizes.

2 - Micro-font, especially when the designer purposefully makes it impossible to use Ctrl-Plus to enlarge the font. It's as if they're purposefully trying to piss people off.

--Hugsy

1600x1200 here.

3200x1200 (1600x1200 dual monitor)

1920x1080p

on a VERY big screen

Hugsy's point is well made.

You should not design your web site to suit a specific resolution (physical size in inches is irrelevant to your question) even if that is the majority. 10% of 100,000 visitors is still a huge number if they get ticked by your design.

Your best bet is to use a fluid design, where your content resizes and rearranges itself depending on the size of the window used for viewing it. Plenty of people with huge monitors do not use up their full screen real estate with their browser and, for best practices, your site should work in all cases. That doesn't mean it will look identical on all screens, nor is that the point.

There are different ways of achieving this fluid design, depending on your coding skills.

If it IS, in fact, very important that your design looks the same in all instances (i.e. you are relying on tables and graphics to form the structure of your design), then you should use a width of about 750 pixels for your design and let the rest of the space just stay empty. 750 is about reasonable for the smallest area of content as it fits into 800x600 resolution and still leave space for the scrollbar.

(That said, a lot of people who are into graphic-rich online environments tend to run at high resolution. But it's amazing how many people I see around here (in an office type situation) with their perfectly capable monitors set to 800x600)

Also keep in mind that some people with large monitors, perhaps because of visual impairments, have lowered their resolution or (heaven forbid) increased their font size. Some browsers lets people muck about with the style sheet (shudder). In other words, you have no control over how your web page displays in the end, anyway. Might as well make sure it display correctly, if not exactly as you see it, on as many different screens as possible.

Just my two cents

1152x864

Ditto here. Good old 15" screen.

I got no clue I have very very small screen.

Ouch! I have a 19" at least

1680x1050 on my widescreen where I display SL.

1280x1024 on my second monitor where I usually, but not always, have my browser running.

That said, Hugsy and Brann are right - I absolutely hate websites that are specifically coded to a set size because I quite often do not run with my browser at full screen and I resize it a lot depending on what else I'm doing at the time.

Also, please make sure you code it so that it works properly under other browsers beside IE.

22 inches of pure digital fun


640x480 ftw

1600x1200 20" and I used the 50" for new years at 1920x1080. Windlight Ultra all the way. \(^_^)/

Um...dunno, but I have a 24" moniter and it rocks with SL. So, a lot I'm sure. lol

yeah, that. i have a number of smaller windows open, so it's easier to switch around between apps. best bet is to use a liquid layout, which can flex and look good in various sizes. for example, use percentages for horizontal layout. it won't look best on the extremes but it should at least be readable at them, but optimized to around 1024 or whatever you feel is your audience's average.

1920x1080