Comments on: The Question that Won’t Die: Optimal Screen Resolution?

By: Ruckus

Ruckus — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:29:20 +0000

1024 x 768 is okay for me

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:49:02 +0000

A FIXED WIDTH FOR 800 x 600:
Our current site is designed at a fixed width of 750 pixels.

That breaks in many situations, such as when a sidebar is in use.

A SCALABLE WIDTH OF 800 x 600 to 1024 x 768:
…I am concerned that some of our users (the elderly and low literacy users) – may not know that they can manipulate content width.

Why on earth are you concerned about that? If they don’t know, then they leave it as it is, and it works just fine.

By: Jared Spool

Jared Spool — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:14:03 +0000

Jeroen wrote:

Stating that a site requires great content is kind of stating the obvious. I think the only ‘right’ answer to that question is: “it depends”.

If it’s so obvious, then why doesn’t everyone do it?

Stay tuned for a future blog our current thinking on the “it depends” answer…

The website’s (intended) audience, their (current|target) knowledge is the proper context to determine the answer. And the only way to find that out is by researching your audience.

I’m with you there, 100%! Again, I’ve found you can’t state this too many times.

By: Jeroen Coumans

Jeroen Coumans — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:18:18 +0000

Stating that a site requires great content is kind of stating the obvious. I think the only ‘right’ answer to that question is: “it depends”. The website’s (intended) audience, their (current|target) knowledge is the proper context to determine the answer. And the only way to find that out is by researching your audience.

By: Chris Cavallucci

Chris Cavallucci — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:34:54 +0000

The DotNetNuke portal provides tools to let the *user* decide what layout to use. Visit http://www.dotnetnuke.com/ and click on the display symbols in the upper right corner near the text resize controls. Clever!

By: Raoul Mengis

Raoul Mengis — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:17:43 +0000

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By: Jared Spool

Jared Spool — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:59:27 +0000

Assuming a website’s content is already perfect, what are the drawbacks to redeveloping a site for a 1024 screen resolution?

Sites with perfect content are hard to come by, so that’s a huge assumption.

But, letting our imagination believe that’s possible, I would think the downside of 1024 width only comes when you’ve got windows less than 1024. More and more, we’re seeing that users don’t open their browser windows to full width.

Granted, this probably isn’t going to make or break a site, but neither are many other design decisions.

Yes, but one of the things we have to worry about is the death of a thousand cuts. When we study sites, it is far more likely we’ll see users give up because of a compendium of issues, no one issue being serious.

On the other hand, if the content is just perfect, maybe users won’t care about the width…

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:34:36 +0000

Assuming a website’s content is already perfect, what are the drawbacks to redeveloping a site for a 1024 screen resolution? I’m guessing a lot of people are struggling with this question and will continue to do so for the next few years.

Granted, this probably isn’t going to make or break a site, but neither are many other design decisions.

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