What Size is this Thingy Supposed to be?

[vilehelm]

What is the minimum monitor size we're shooting for?

[zoomfreddy]

Hi vilehelm!!!
800x600, to leave some space for the other pages or stuff... not?

[mad_A]

Top three browsers people use to surf the web:

Microsoft IE 78.3%
Netscape 16.3%
AOL 5.4%

Top operating systems being used in computers surfing the web

Windows 98 61.8%
Windows 95 16.8%
Windows NT 11.9%
Windows 2000/NT 5 4.7%
Macintosh 3.5%

Number of colors computers surfing the web display

65,536 (16 bit) 49.7%
16 million (32 bit) 22.6%
16 million (24 bit) 10.8%
256 (8 bit) 7.3%
16 (4 bit) 0.2%

Top four screen resolution settings web surfers are using

800 x 600 51.7%
1024 x 768 26.3%
Not specified 9.3%
640 x 480 7.5%

Top five search engines used on the web

Yahoo! 39.1%
MSN 11.4%
Google 10.1%
AOL.com Search 10.0%
AltaVista 5.9%

[Jesse]

I reckon it should run on 800 x 600 but it shouldn't take up the whole screen at that res. I like drop down menus and compactness in Flash.

[20 Ton Squirrel]

I prefer a large resolution like 1024x768 but most of the sites that I build are done in 800x600. Especially when dealing with Flash. Since it's scalable and all, build it for a medium size and let it scale up to fit the window... of course, that might skew things a bit.

[mad_A]

I think it depends on how inmportant the site is to you. If it is a personal site - so you want it always to look it's best, (or if the client is paying well!) it is easy enough to have a number of versions of the site. Detect the users resolution etc. with javascript and load the correct version.

It soulds like a lot of work, but if you keep all the textual info outside and load from xml of a dB you only need to do one update to change the content.

A

[mad_A]

20 T S -
The link in your footer to the group project does not link anywhere specific - where should it go?

[20 Ton Squirrel]

The link in my footer is just to draw attention to the new forum, which you are already participating in... so did it work? *grin*

[mad_A]

I guess so!

:D ;) :p

[vilehelm]

8x6 it is...however i'ts' going to have to take up almost all of that in order to be real user friendly...

One point we were discussing in the MUD (people should stop by more we've been having great fun) is that while the stats say 8x6 is the majority of monitors most likely it is not the majority for users of this site. Maybe my poll should have been what is your monitor set to?

I'll do that on the general chat...Jesse do you have any kind of user log files for this? probably not i think they usually only track browser and platform.

[mad_A]

I agree with that. An easy way to get the stats for this site is to do what I mentioned earlier with a redirect to a page, it can simply be a copy of the same page with a different name for the first page on the site. Then look at the hit stats for the site and whichever page has the most hits = the correct res to use for this site.

[pinkaboo]

I track the technology used by visitors using my site (using a free web counter thingy - click the little circle on my homepage and you get to view lots of stats) I know my site doesn't get a great deal of hits but the info I get is quite interesting:

1. 1024x768 1738 38,32%
2. 1280x1024 1246 27,47%
3. 800x600 1030 22,71%
4. 1152x864 223 4,92%
5. 640x480 81 1,79%
6. n/a 56 1,23%
7. 1600x1200 44 0,97%
8. 832x624 38 0,84%
9. 1280x960 31 0,68%
10. 1152x870 16 0,35%
11. 720x480 13 0,29%
12. 2048x768 7 0,15%
13. 1600x1024 6 0,13%
14. 1400x1050 4 0,09%
15. 1018x718 2 0,04%
16. 2560x960 1 0,02%

Total 4536 100.00%

doesn't agree with the oft quoted remark about 800x600 being the most popular though there's not much between the top 3 *shrug*

anyhow

K

[mad_A]

I find designers especially, and some programmers tend to go for very large monitors, and high res, so the stats for this site, like yours pinkaboo, would vere on the larger then normal size.

[vilehelm]

Originally posted by pinkaboo
16. 2560x960 1 0,02%

Apple Flat Screen Cinema display, damn! I want one of those....

[20 Ton Squirrel]

Yeah, a resolution SO BIG that it takes you paddling your mouse across the pad a hundred times to move a couple inches! Heh!

[vilehelm]

"mouse...bah pen and tablet brother!

[20 Ton Squirrel]

*droooooool* Man, I'd kill to have an 8X10 tablet with pen. That would RULE.

[Jesse]

Ahh yeah I believe we do have stats on this. I'll check when I get back form the movies.

[pinkaboo]

"mouse...bah pen and tablet brother!

I'm with you there Vile, in fact I think I've forgotten what my mouse looks like, poor little fella, last time I saw him he was mooching about behind my monitor, wonder if he's still there?!