Is it good to have a fixed resolution for the website or make it stretched according to the visitors screen resolution?
If fixed, please can you temme, whats the ideal resolution?
When googling it, it said 1024x800, but i want to know from the professionals out here.
There has been so many debates on website resolution its crazy. Do a Google search and take the time to read some of the articles and blog posts. Both fixed and fluid have their advantages/disadvantages. At this point in time I usually go fixed at ~750x550 to accommodate the users out there still using 800x600 resolution as well.
Fluid on the other hand might be something to think about if you ever plan on having a mobile friendly website for mobile devices
I think the best you can do is to fix the width to 990 and to add additional module (advertising bar, text titles, etc.) that would fill the empty space in higher resolution monitors.
I use either ~900px fixed (up to 100px fixed) or 80-98% flexible. Flexible sucks for things like images and adverts. Sometimes a flexible main with fixed sidebar works well (but is a nightmare to code sometimes).
Personally, I used 800-900px fixed and that's for several reasons.
1. Most of my templates are somewhat image heavy and them being fluid would make the layout look too weird and stretched.
2. I don't actually know how to code a template to be fluid and honestly, I don't want to either as I prefer fixed, I find it looks better and because most people now have at least a 1024x768 resolution monitor the size shouldn't matter (if you have lower then my templates will look screwed but pity for you and your crappy Windows 2K).
3. Fixed looks better to my eyes. And loads of websites I know use fixed and I can easily tell they'd look like crud if they were fluid.
