How wide do you design yours?

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Just a quick question for all web designers on the base resolution/screen-width you are currently designing for. This applies to both fixed and fluid designs, because they both need to take into account the minimum width a site design will work acceptably at.

I'm curious as to what people now consider most common. Really this is going to be a choice between whether it's still 800x600, or is it now is 1024x768 and 800x600 is 'legacy'? Thoughts on that?

So, what's your bottom line? The following list is typical viewport widths for the common resolutions:

• 584px
• 744px
• 968px
• 1096px
• 1344px
• 1384px
• 1544px
• 1624px
• 1824px

If a passing kindly Ronald McDonald feels this is worthy of a poll, please feel free to make one .

 

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Looking at my own stats of viewport width (not resolution), shows a 60/40 split between those above 968px and those below it. It's quite important to take stats from the viewport width and not screen width because, as has already been highlighted, not everyone browses with a fully maximised window.

That places designing for 800x600 in the minority so I've now moved towards designing for 1024x768 widths with side scrolling. Of course, how possible that is depends on the design, but by placing non-essential content on the right-hand side can be fairy successful. I try and make use of min and max-widths, hacking it in for IE (using the expression() fix), to aid this.

Oh, and W3Schools has nothing to do with the W3C .