Best page size 800 or 1000?

As someone touched on, don't forget the width of the vertical scrollbar if your pages are deeper than 600px (most are).

When trying to accomodate 800x600 I generally aim for 760px-770px, but recently clients are wanting to push out to 900px-1000px.

Fluid can be cool but is a pain to accomodate if the layout is graphically intensive.

Also, just to cheese us all off, Web on TV is coming... which means worse than 800x600 for regular TV's. Lets hope HDTV is the norm before it really takes off eh?!

 

I normally design for max 900.. sometimes make it work in smaller sizes.

 

My standard size of web page is 780px width. 800px to okey. But I always keep the page center of the page (Center of the Page).

 

What would be the best width for people who have their resolution on 1024x768?

 

Everything smaller than 1000px wide.

 

I voted 1000 :-D

 

I have 800 pixels with use of one main div element; while the code is the following:

<div style="width:800px; margin:0 auto;">

Code (markup):

greetings, tayiper

 

to me the best size is 780px.

 

I voted 800

 

fluid//760

 

Remember that with the scrollbar (and maybe diffrent stuff like a.... uhm... That thing on the left on Opera.) it will be too wide for someone with a 800x600 or smaller.

 

I thought I would add some actual data to this discussing.
Being a physicist I sometimes prefer data to opionions,
(but usually when the data supports my opinions )

My Urchin reports tell me what the screen resolution of my
visitors is (when it is available). The following is from about
500,000 visitors since January 1st 2006.

1. 1024x768 277,147 50.19%
2. 1280x1024 103,930 18.82%
3. 800x600 61,104 11.07%
4. 1152x864 24,119 4.37%
5. 1280x800 19,959 3.61%
6. 1600x1200 14,239 2.58%
7. 1400x1050 10,322 1.87% ]
8. 1680x1050 6,535 1.18%
9. 1440x900 5,962 1.08%
10. 1280x960 5,711 1.03%

Personally I hate this, why are people so resolution phobic?
I get a scrolling bar if the resolution is less than 900 wide,
I hate that, but I am reluctant to rewrite 500 pages. r

 

20% of my visitors are 800x600...

 

You wouldnt have to if you had used Dreamweaver template files.
(Very handy feature)

And I'll say it again Fluid layouts rock.

 

Twice a month I take a look at it, what would be more valuable,
redesigning my website to make it less lame, or expand on it to
get more traffic and revenue?

It always comes down on the fact that my lame web site is bringing
in $100,000 a month in sales and just keep adding lame
looking
but high content pages to sell more stuff.

I'm caught in a trap!

Best regards
mark

 

I usally use 800px but my new site is only 450px Trying something new just to see the results

 

I have 1440x900 on my laptop and I still like the look of websites which are 800px width.

 

I prefer to use 750/780 on all my client's site ...
It pleases them as well as it pleases me ...
To be frank ... users get irritated when they have to scroll horizontally ...
and love the vertical scroll , so Use lots of Bullets ! Proper DIV
Quality Content .. and a 750/780 layout ...
and ur site will rock
Abhishek

 

This is interesting, I get 10% at this resolution and you
get 20%. Maybe it is because I am trying to attract engineers
and they are more likely to have higher resolution?

Hopefully this is a sign that I am succeeding!

 

looks like the standard answer but 780 is what we design for