webdesign

What is the best size for a webpage nowadays? I want to revamp my site and am not sure what size I should make it.

640*480?
800*600?
or even bigger? I know that the screens are getting bigger, but the Browser takes up space, and some people have it open in a window instead of full screen.

What are your thoughts?

 

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Hey cool I didn't know you had a website, it looks great.
I didn't read much of it yet but the pictures are hilarious

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EDIT: Sorry I can't answer your queries. I don't know much about computers.

 

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Well I don't think anyone uses 640 x 400 anymore, unless anyone is going to say differently.

800 x 600 Will fit on most screens (and although the 640 x400 lot have to scroll they can still see it).

You could go larger, but I know I only use 800 x 600 on one of my computers. It was and still is one of the main sizes really.

However....

You could be sneaky and rig multiple versions based on size, and then perhaps rig a javascript splash to check the size (and version) of the browser.

 

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you could use % specs. I would do 800x600

 

i guess a lot of people use 1024*768 as a screen resolution, but of course the internetbrowser takes up space on the screen. Therefore I was thinking that I shouldn't go beyond 800*600.

Personally I'm ar 1280*1024. And then 800*600 looks almost small...

well we shall try a few things.

I have a test page here

Not all the links work properly and in hindsight I am not too happy about the artwork. But I would like to make a site with proper buttons and such. As you may notice some of the buttons do not work properly. I'm not sure why. I was using Photoshop imageready 3.
And the graphic files might be a bit too big for one page. All together they are almost half a Mb. Does anyone have any suggestions? maybe I should try to make a page with a reduced amount of colours? would that help?

 

Not bad Spurious however I neglected to mention some finer points about site creation:

1: remember the browser has a scroll bar and menu/taskbar usually, this means although I mentioned 800x600, you have to take the bars into account. (760x600 or so)

2: Sometimes you can have a LEFTMARGIN and TOPMARGIN entry in your BODY tag, this causes "margins" to be placed around your page, if you leave it on dealt a size is used, if you want it to hug the edges then you have to use the value of 0 in these.

i.e.

Code:

< BODY LEFTMARGIN="0" TOPMARGIN="0">
// Note: there should be no space between the "<" bracket and BODY

Hope that helps, But keep that building up as your site looks good.

 

i had a bit of a setback now...the computer support people discovered that I had some (a lot) illegal software on my computer. I had to clean it up. I guess I can only work at home from now on.

 

major update.

update on my website...(how egocentrical of me)...

it is still here of course

www.spuriousmonkey.com


I did a graphical overhaul. There is not really a lot of new content if you visited it recently. It was a real bitch to change the whole site. When I started it original site I wasn't very organized. Everything was all over the place. I still have some of these organizational problems, but it is slightly more streamlined.

I decided to do my 'archives' in plain html. Should be easy to add stuff there from now on.

And I went for a consistent look with a limited amount of colours.

In case you wonder what the old site looked like. I don't have an exact copy anymore but a very old version can be found here.

http://www.geocities.com/spuriousmonkey/

and finally my site pops up when you enter spuriousmonkey in google...it is about time. There used to be only sciforum links...about 2700 of them.

feedback is wellcome of course