Thursday, September 25, 2008

width one thousand

2008 is the year of affordable 1440x900 screens for new PC buyers, but what is the display resolution of your audience?

75% of web users now have 1024x768 screens, so we can leave designing for 800x600 in the dust. But if you craft a website more than a thousand pixels wide, how much of your audience will you lose?

My read of w3schools' statistics leads me to think it's about two-thirds. So, whenever your graphic designer hands you a template exceeding 1024x768, push back. Just because s/he has dual 1440px wide screens is no excuse to inconvenience >half of your users.

Addendum: Drag this 1024 link from the page onto your Bookmarks Toolbar to create a "bookmarklet" that will resize your browser to 1024px.

1 comment:

Monty said...

My coworker Jason M. shared this interesting link: The 960 Grid System: http://960.gs

Some reader applications on your desktop (like Mozilla Thunderbird) can automatically pull news from an feed such as this one.