I set up my first site to be 800px wide, but am thinking about designing for greater settings... I know that I can do a width of 100%, but really want to set some fixed width cell... Anyone run into any problems designing for a larger width setting? I've seen some stats... but would like to hear some opinions here... Thanks, Starke
When i've designed something with css or tables, i always used to run into those types of problems. What i did in the end was to layer it with a 100% background, then place the fixed cells on top on another layer at 50% to the left. That seemed to do the trick in the end but it took me ages to work it out.
I do all of my personal sites at 970px wide now since only around 2% of my traffic uses a smaller res and I feel the ones who use a higher res should getting a better experience at the sacrifice of that 2%'s experience. Of course this changes depending on your target. For a website aimed at schools and education I go for ~540px wide. I'm not a fan of fluid designs at all.
The vast majority of visitors to all my sites have resolutions of atleast 1024x768 so I design my sites for that. If it is a client I will design for 800x600 (if they want a fixed width) unless they want a lot of info on the page then I will go for a fluid design. On average I think you will be pretty safe at 1024x768.
My only problem is with FireFox, annoying as usual, but nothing in width matters, nothing that cannot be fixed adding this to the stylesheet min-width:99.9%; max-width:99.9%; width:100% Code (markup): Apart of this, I have never designed with 800px in mind. I know there are many people out there using this resolution, hence using 100% instead so design adjust to any resolution. I simply hate those fixed 800-width sites aligned to the left and leaving a quarter of screen in blank (or color) since my default resolution is 1024x768
Hey guys, sorry to get back to this post after such a long while, but had a bit of a nasty accident... let's just say, I'm just catching up to where I was in Nov... Cool, guess that I'm not so far off about designing for a greater width. I just don't like being confined to the 800 px... Thanks for the style sheet tip too Pat, little things like that can be helpful...