[thastrom]

How wide should a website be in pixels? I know I could be almost any, but what is the best ?

[Liam]

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[seen.to]

Depends on your target audience. I still do the majority of my stuff around 770px wide to allow for people with an 800x600 display. It's become increasingly safe to allow for a 1024x768 display and when I'm happy that my audience will have at least that resolution available to them then I design at 990px width.

Long gone are the days of having to support 640x480 (thankfully) but if your target audience was to consist largely of such users then you should aim at 610px - a size which personally I now only use for HTML email.

[1christopher]

i go for 780px myself, it gives me an extra 10px i really appreciate! lol

[herkalees]

As wide as the visitors browser window.

[pgo]

Fluid schmuid.

Just kidding. If you're going fixed width, 1024x768 is usually a safe resolution to target. Say, 900px wide?

[Larixk]

yup, fluid or <=900px is how I roll

[Liam]

I'm currently trying to implement a jello layout on my site at the moment.

[pgo]

Originally Posted by Liam

I'm currently trying to implement a jello layout on my site at the moment.

Seems convoluted. I'd rather just do auto width with min-width and max-width in ems.

I usually just go lazy and do px, though.

[Do Gooder]

jello looks interesting. will give that a ponder. cheers big ears.

[Liam]

Seems convoluted. I'd rather just do auto width with min-width and max-width in ems.

Each to their I own.

I used to always use fixed width but this method is very handy as I develop and maintain a site that is used by a wide range of users and as I work for a university they are very strict with accessibility.

I even get some people using 640x480 so I can cater for them whilst still looking nice in higher resolution monitors.

[Retard-3000]

I don't know what I'm talking about.

[Mongoose]

The collective mindset of web designers today seems to be steering toward the assumption that no one uses 800x600 anymore, so pages in and around 900px in width are becoming more popular.

[bazzle]

It all depends on how what sort of content will be on your website, and how many columns you will use.

If your website will have user created content then definately go with fluid width.

As mongoose says, no one really uses small monitors anymore, and laptops use widescreens, so you can be quite flexible.

[phpninja]

I like a fluid layout with a max-width of about 900px-1000px.

[teapoted]

I normaly only use fixed width layouts for personal sites, or sites where the content is going to be very limited or always static, and fluid layouts for things with a lot of changing content simply so you don't have to go back and mess with the layout.

[pgo]

The layout should not break when the content changes...

[niksy]

I usually go with 1024x768 resolution (that is, 900px width).

[thastrom]

Ok. So how do you do so the site stretches over the whole page?

[JesuSlaveX]

I'm a filthy whore for 1000px. Now that 1024X768 is standard, it looks like its full screen, and still looks good on a wide screen monitor