How important is it to support 800x600 these days?

How important is it to support 800x600 these days?

What % of users still use 800x600? I have started making my sites for 1024x768 as minimum supported resolution without horizontal scrolling.

 

I would say very little...important. If somebody doesn't care enough to update their hardware, they probably dont care about horizontal scrollbars. I dont know a single person using 800x600.

 

I think it depends on what kind of site you are doing, if you making a web design site, you should definitely go with 1024*768.

 

According to statcounter, 17% of my users are still using 800x600. Use the data as you will

-P

 

i always try to keep the width at or about 800.
people who use that res are well aware of the horizontal scroll bars by now.

 

Well this is for www.freesitestatus.com so the target is webmasters, hosting companies and other web professionals.

 

For webmaster-targeted sites I personally definitely wouldn't worry about 800x600.

-P

 

I did a poll with a couple other webmasters - all of us using Google Analytics. We all showed that 4-6% of our users used 800x600 - the rest used larger resolutions.

 

Thanks guys, I've started a thread here to get an idea of DP users screen resolution settings - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=410982

 

Hey , Is that you site,...It looks great

Who did the buttons up top?/ I need a good designer that can do that could you recommend one?

Thanks in advance and great site

 

About 3-10% of your users will (should) be using 800x600. If your site is selling something (but I see it's not) I would still keep 800x600 in mind (don't want to be losing a few % of your sales). One though would be to redirect 800x600 (and mobile phones) to a specially formatted page.

 

Yes, it is my site, thanks.

The navigation buttons or do you mean the logo?

The best designer I have used is this guy, but he is busy working on a lot of stuff for me right now.

 

Thanks for the feedback, I will consider doing that.

We do have an optional upgrade to professional monitoring which starts at $2.00/month. But yeah, right now just trying to market the free service and get more members.

 

Even if noone used 800x600 resolution, it would still be nice to keep your site usable at that size as users, especially your target audience multi task or for some other reason, have their browsers smaller than the maximum size. Of course, there is also the possibility of the user using a sidebar for history, bookmarks or a custom one through a browser addon.

 

Hmm...good point...even though I don't like it!

 

Fahd, I already answered your question on SitePoint. The simple fact of the matter is that screen resolution in this day and age is meaningless. It has no value whatsoever. Just because a person (such as myself) is using a screen resolution of 1024x768 does not mean that the browser window will be using up all that real estate.

In fact, right this very moment, I have my browser window set to 640x480 because I have Trillian running (with a few... dozen... conversations), Opera, and a text editor, and I want to make sure I can switch back and forth between them while working. To even think that I should be using a larger monitor or use all of my available screen real estate just for your Web site is pointless, ignorant, disrespectful and downright rude (the simple fact being that I have over $10,000 in medical bills to pay off, so the 19" Samsung LCD monitor I have my eye on is not very high on my priority list right now).

Now, the entirety of this post isn't aimed at you specifically, but the community in general. Also don't forget that there are others who cannot use a "decent" monitor because they're not able to make the purchasing decisions necessary to bring those monitors to the desktop (library patrons and office employees for example). And don't forget that mobile devices are maturing in their own right, with Opera Mobile, Opera Mini and the iPhone among others now being able to display regular Web sites as well.

I'm sorry if I offended you, but this is one dead horse I'm going to keep on beating until I get my point across.

 

Dan,

Yeah, you do have me a little scared here.

Sorry, but I hadn't quite seen your post on SP. I do understand your point and it makes a lot of sense. What I have to decide though is whether giving up that space to possibly gain more users is worth the loss in revenue from larger ad spaces.

 

Easy. Use a float drop. If the extra space can't be had, then the container for the ads gets dropped down (automatically - no scripting required) below the other floated content. If there's enough room, then it gets presented alongside the other floated columns.

This is assuming you're using CSS instead of layout tables of course.

 

But then the site doesn't look the way I want!

 

And it won't. Ever. But that's not the point. The user can do anything he or she wants to do with yoru Web site's appearance and there's really nothing you can do about it. The best you can do is to cover all the most likely scenarios instead.