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Old 05-04-2008, 04:55 AM   · #1
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Website Resolution
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.

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Old 05-04-2008, 07:59 AM   · #2
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it all depends

fixed is frowned upon in terms of accessibility, but can be a nightmare to design / code for.

I liked fixed ones, and I would say cater for 1024x768, so make the max width about 960px.
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Old 05-08-2008, 12:53 PM   · #3
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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

Just my opinion.
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Old Yesterday, 09:03 AM   · #4
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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.
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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).
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