Designing Web Sites for Monitor Resolution

If you don’t know, here it is: monitors have different display resolutions that can be changed. Some standard resolutions are 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768. There are many others.

Your Web site looks different on each of these resolutions. Goodness help you if you’ve made your site too large for a particular resolution because people hate to scroll left and right.

You need to pick a minimum resolution before creating art for the web site. It’s a real pain to try to retrofit a site to a smaller resoluton. The current resolution Way Cool Web Design uses is 800x600 if no other size is specified by the client. A number of web sites keep some statistics on monitor resolutions used by their visitors. You may find these useful.

Set some guidelines up at the "safe" dimensions for 800x600 — you can determine that at Web Monkey. Way Cool Web Design uses 744x410 as a starting place, depending on project requirements.

Reference

To change your screen resolution Windows XP Professional Product Documentation.

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