I'm helping my firm redo their currently awful website that was built in 1998.  There are 4 people making decisions on what and how it will look.  2 of them want something new and fresh, the other wants a middle ground.  Some flash here, some html here, but nothing too over the top that's hard to update.  And the other person is still stuck in 1998. 

 

I display the web samples to my coworkers on a monitor thats 1680 x 1050 pixels.  All of our office monitors are 19" flat panel 1280 x 800 and above except for the few people who never requested computer upgrades have ancient yellowed plastic CRT screens.  I think 1280 where most people are at all, although 1024 x 768 is definitely not uncommon.  It's very hard explaining resolution to people who don't have a grasp on the idea.  They see a 17" monitor from 2006 and think it will display the same as a 17" monitor from the last decade.  Wrong.  Anyway this last person is upset that she's getting scrollbars on a few samples I've done.  The browser tools take up like half the screen lol!

 

I'm currently trying to make the website upsize to fill the whole screen no matter what resolution, but that bastard 800x600 is still making things a bit difficult without squashing photos to postage stamp size. 

 

Just curious, but what do you all use, and what is your opinion on it.  W3org which controls internet standards says less than 8% of web users are at 800 x 600.  Typically the elderly or residents of third world countries (I'm serious!) are at this resolution.  These people are all out of our market area and I'm positive most our clients use newer computers. For a design firm, it's my opinion to drop these 800x600 users.  Give them scrollbars as punishment for not buying a new computer for the past 8 years or still leaving their resolution on the default settings after they took it out of the box. 

I have no clue.

I'm at 1024x768 most of the time because that's what my laptop will display.  When I use my desktop, I cruise around at 1280x1024, which is much nicer. 

1400x1050

My display is 1680*1050.

For my personal website I use a width of 1030 so that it fits nicely on a monitor that is 1280*1024.

Lower resolution monitors need to go away. 

1680x1050

I'm at 1024 x 768, which is the default set by the administrator at work. My laptop at home has a wider screen and I have the resolution higher, but I don't know what it is. I'll check when I get home tonight.

Mostly I run at 1024x768 on a 21-inch ViewSonic G225fB (graphic arts CRT). It's comfortable for my eyes and lets me view most sites with minimal scrolling.

 

Maximum resolution for my display adapter and monitor is 2048x1536 but I'd never had any reason to go that high. I just tried it, and it's quite sharp and crisp and I'm not detecting any noticeable flicker. Even with the font size set to "extra large" text is pretty hard on my eyes at normal viewing distance, though.

 

 

A minimum of 1024. Anything lower is too BIG.

You can't do anything with 800x600 lol that's some Windows 3.1 oregon trail sh!t

1440 x 900 widescreen

You can't do anything with 800x600 lol that's some Windows 3.1 oregon trail sh!t

 

I hope you're not knockin' Oregon Trail!!!!!

I'm on 800x600 and it rules! Everything is the right size. If I go up to 1024, everything gets really tiny.

You can't do anything with 800x600 lol that's some Windows 3.1 oregon trail sh!t

 

I hope you're not knockin' Oregon Trail!!!!!

 

Hell no, Oregon Trail was the sh!t. I used to play that in 7th grade computer class after I got my work done.

You can't do anything with 800x600 lol that's some Windows 3.1 oregon trail sh!t

 

I hope you're not knockin' Oregon Trail!!!!!

 

Hell no, Oregon Trail was the sh!t. I used to play that in 7th grade computer class after I got my work done.

 

Whew.  Oregon Trail is a great drinking game, by the way.

1680x1050 I wouldn't enjoy games and hd movies otherwise. )

I can't believe how cheap flatscreen monitors are now. There's a really cheap ink cartridge place in Hilliard I went to the other day and they had monitors that must have been over 21 inches for a little over 200 bucks. Amazing how they've come down so low. I wouldn't mind having dual monitors. It really comes in handy when you're multi-tasking.

We have some 14 inch screens on a few control systems at work that I keep at 800x600.  I have to tuck these monitors into a small space, so I don't want anything larger.  If I make my home PC any "higher" than 1024x768, my old eyes have trouble with it. 

 

I'm not an admin but I understand you have to control these forum punks by any means.

I love (old) people who say that the smaller resolution is clearer. Yes, because a monitor with seatbelt sized scrollbars is much clearer.

2048x1536, but I'm an exception :) I'm looking to get an even bigger monitor soon.

 

At one of my workplaces, my boss was pretty anal about web-design. We had to keep the standard graphics header that had been carried over from 1995 (it was hideous), design it to be a maximum width of 790 pixels (for an 800 pixel wide monitor), code it so that it was compatible with text based browsers (leaving the page pretty much bare bones). He thought that there was a lot of browsers that were still text based -- and based on my analytics, not a sole was browsing using anything older than IE 6 (...).

 

I tried on my personal web-sites, going for a fluid design that would be compatible for all web-browsers and sizes, but it was too cumbersome to code and design for. The amount of workarounds for IE and Mozilla based browsers made it awful. I code it for 800 pixels wide, but I'm thinking of expanding this to at least 1,100.

At one of my workplaces, ... code it so that it was compatible with text based browsers ...

I don't understand the distinction.  What would *not* be a text-based browser?

Text-only browser, I meant.

I love (old) people who say that the smaller resolution is clearer. Yes, because a monitor with seatbelt sized scrollbars is much clearer.

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Hahaha very true

 

 

So we've decided to go with a script that will detect your browser size and give you the best sized content for you screen. 

 

For example, our "slideshow" for our projects will scale itself larger so you get your money's worth in image size on your screen.  Text will probably stay the same, but we figured it was unfair for people with larger resolutions to have to view postage stamp sized images just so we could please our 800 x 600 users.  I'll probably set a cap though.  After 2000+ pixel wide (on Apple's cinematic displays)  I'll probably just center the content.  Although it's highly unusual for people to max their browsers on these types of screens, especially since they are only made larger for movies or multi-tasking, not surfing the web.

Funny to come across this thread in 2017. The resolution of the display I'm looking at right now is 5120×2880.