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800 x 600 - Going for good
I dont think it's a massive secret and is certainly common knowledge among our regulars that webforumz.com is under-going not only a massive and radical redesign, but also a rebrand.
Representing the world of web design and development we thought long and hard about our new design and I came to the decision to not support 800 x 600 any longer.
We are frequented by web designers and web developers and as such it's fair to estimate that a tiny proportion of our target market will be using such a low screen res.
The number of people actually using 800 x 600 according to our google analytics data is 2% and I have to wonder how many of those are *real* users.
So, certainly for webforumz.com, 800 x 600 has had it's day.
With the above said however, I think it would be foolish to dis-regard 800 x 600 resolutions for other markets.
If your website's end user is not likely to be designers or developers, my advice would be to support this resolution.
I leave you with the question however:-
How long can 800 x 600 survive?
Representing the world of web design and development we thought long and hard about our new design and I came to the decision to not support 800 x 600 any longer.
We are frequented by web designers and web developers and as such it's fair to estimate that a tiny proportion of our target market will be using such a low screen res.
The number of people actually using 800 x 600 according to our google analytics data is 2% and I have to wonder how many of those are *real* users.
So, certainly for webforumz.com, 800 x 600 has had it's day.
With the above said however, I think it would be foolish to dis-regard 800 x 600 resolutions for other markets.
If your website's end user is not likely to be designers or developers, my advice would be to support this resolution.
I leave you with the question however:-
How long can 800 x 600 survive?
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Looks like WF will be different at college then lol
 it's in the 2% i think lol I agree with what you say about the amount of 800 x 600, i think it is best for website designers to code their view according to their visitors, each site is different good look with the continued rebrand Craig |
 
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Thats quite surprising as almost every company/school network I've seen uses 800x600 and they obviously have a lot of computers.
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i think with the advent of TFTs its increasing higher esolutions, but the problem is with people who think a lower resolution is the best way to make it bigger, but its not!
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I would agree with Christopher there. It happens here at work where people will get a new machine and request the res be dropped because they can't see the screen!
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It's worth remembering that the browser viewport is almost always smaller than the screen resolution.
Webforumz is an edge case, because the intersection of "forums" and "web design" guarantees a techy audience. Still, 800*600 is not popular; my website gets 4% visitors at 800*600. In general I would still try to accommodate 800*600 and lower, although it doesn't matter if the layout suffers a little. Just make it usable. |
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Updated March 10th, 2008 at 12:58 PM by MikeHopley |
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I always use 1280x1024. I prefer the largest resolution. Anyone agree?
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no, i dont agree. I strongly disagree. It should function at that resolution, sure... but it should not *require* that resolution.
Always design for the lowest common denomonator.... in most cases 800 x 600, but in our 'techy' case, 1024 x 768 |
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I'm playing on these resolutions 800 x 600, 1024 x 768 most of the time.
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I agree, I have recently switched from 800x600 websites to mainly minimum of width 1024px. If I have a fluid design I even use min-width:1024 instead of 800. The web these days has three column designs. It just isnt possible to have a 3 column layout of width 800px and it not seem cluttered.
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To answer Rob's question: Not long, as you're not supporting it anymore. But for other websites, i'm unsure.
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I didn`t had 800 x 600 for a very very long time on my pc and if i had it ... it was a mistake . Nowdays i think you should optimise your layout for 1024/768 . If you want a nice website you should consider this resolution and forget about 800 width.
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Most websites use 3 column designs (as Mikka23 said) are in higher resolutions than 800 x 600. Some have to stick to the one column, such as Myspace.
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Unfortunately I think that if anyone still is using the 800X600 screen, they are probably used to some type of scrolling - they probably have their history of favorites opened which will then decrease their width as well.
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The history tool bar decreases the width of the browser until you close it.
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