When designing a website there many considerations to make, the most
important one, I think, is the display resolution. As a graphic designer
and as web developer I noticing that many designs breaks apart when you
see them in other displays for many reasons:
- The resolution is different from the one you test it on
- The browser installed in the computer (Specially if the browser is
Internet Explorer either version) - The color set for the monitor
Only one of these factors you can control as a designer and is the
number one, the different display resolutions. During the last weeks
I’ve been working on a website for a client that showed me another
website to use it as my paragon. The problem I noticed with the website I
was referred to is that the website was design in a resolution for a
display higher that 1600 px wide. If you try to see it in a monitor
lower than that you might need to scroll left and right. Something not
many web users like to do.
So I designed my page to fit in monitors from 1000 px and up.
Why I did this? Based in a survey made last year (January to be
exact) 56% of web users around the World uses monitors that the display
resolution is 1024 px wide and 768 px height. Only a 36% uses monitors
over 1200 pixel wide resolution and there’s still 4% that uses 800 x 600
pixel monitors. Yeap! There’s still some ugly monitors around. But I
can’t limit that much.
With this in mind I consider that the best width size for a web page
would be 1000 px. That for fixed width size web page. Those who prefer
to design dynamic web pages doesn’t have that bit of a problem, but
still it is hard for me trying to design something that would be flow
nice in a 1024 x 768 display and in a 1920 x 1200 display. For that
reason I prefer to design a centralized nice 1000 pixels wide web page
than a dynamic width web. The both still look good either way.
Remember, just Mac users with a new mouse has the scroll ball in the
mouse and they can browse a page either way easily. But for the rest 80%
percent who still has old Mac mouses and PC users the only basic
scrolling option is up and down.
An user-friendly interface is one of the most basic consideration to
have when building a website.
Happy Designing
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