Your websites width? (what do you prefer, and use?)

99% it's a fixed with of around 760-790 centered.

Depends how much content there is going to be on the pages etc/type of design.
 
Tend to like most fit my sites for about 900px, I know some people are probably still using 800x600 resolution for their desktop, but really it's kinda bad being at that low of a resolution these days.
 
I agree.

Just make sure its still usable to 800x600. Web Design would never move forward if we all still and only designed specifically for 800x600.
 
blade007 said:
whoever blocks IE6 is nuts. There are a lot of people out there on IE6.

I test all my sites that I make for client on FF, IE7 and IE6. If there's a cross browser bug (with CSS rendering) then I correct it, in my own time if I have to - yes it's a pain but I've never had an unhappy client. Attention to detail keeps clients.
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Out of interest, how do you test on both IE6 and IE7? Do you have another computer with IE6 on it?
 
I usually design it to fit onto a 800 screen (but scrolling vertically) but look nice on higher resolutions, so I center where possible. I also use flow layouts to make it larger but to resize to 800 automatically.

The main thing that I find annoying is using fixed size divs with flow layout, which then add horizontal bars "because a vertical bar has made it smaller" and thus all the horizontal distance is - the width of the vertical bar! Totally pointless but happens a lot in ie. Still, at least ie seems to support min-width as opposed to firefox.
 
Pretty much all of the sites I design fit in an 800x600 screen. To be honest, it's more out of habit than anything else, and I just think it looks better (most of the time) :)
 
my personal site is at 800x600 :)

i use transparent images but instead of blocking ie6 users i show a warning page at the beginning which has a link to upgrade ie6

decided to kept to a HEIGHT as well to.. well.. just - it made things easier for me

also - my first post :(
 
Ban IE6 users? :rolleyes:

If you even have half a clue about making websites you should be able to make a site look good in several browsers.

Oh and 800px wide. As it should be. A very basic guideline. If you can't build a site with ~780px of horizontal space, then forget it.
 
chiragsolanki said:
also - my first post :(
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CLAIMED.

I know people that used to code for 640x480... I didn't question it at the time assuming insanity, but it was for an intranet on reallly old touchscreens.
 
chiragsolanki said:
my personal site is at 800x600 :)

i use transparent images but instead of blocking ie6 users i show a warning page at the beginning which has a link to upgrade ie6

decided to kept to a HEIGHT as well to.. well.. just - it made things easier for me

also - my first post :(
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Welcome to the forums :)
 
iCraig said:
Ban IE6 users? :rolleyes:

If you even have half a clue about making websites you should be able to make a site look good in several browsers.
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:rolleyes:

I do have a clue, it was a test bed design, not something I put on my multi million pound 5 billion hit a day website.
 
Longbow said:
:rolleyes:

I do have a clue, it was a test bed design, not something I put on my multi million pound 5 billion hit a day website.
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There's no need to block IE6 users for any site.
 
IE6 is an old browser which poorly renders a lot of things... Forcing people to upgrade to IE7, which is free, better at rendering pages, and more secure (I think?!) is only going to be good thing :cool:

Sometimes IE6 is a pain in the backside, but IE7 hasn't messed up rendering any of my sites. If nobody used IE6, it would save me a hell of a lot of time messing about trying to fix what IE6 broke, and would only make browsing the 'net better for everyone!

IE6 is evil, end of :p Non-tekkie computer users won't upgrade by themself, but if they visited their favorite site and it came up with a message "You are using an old web browser, please visit the Microsoft website and upgrade to Internet Explorer 7" then they probably would upgrade :)

IMO, IE6 is like Windows 98 - it's rubbish and just shouldn't be used anymore :p
 
In an ideal world I'd love it to be just one universal browser engine to work with. E.g. have plenty of browsers with their own unique features, but the rendering engine is identical.

However, it won't happen, so you have to cater for people. Those who aren't computer literate enough to understand IE6 has a successor, shouldn't be punished by the developers who can't be arsed to tweak their site to work in both. It's part of their job as web developers.
 
I never said I can't be arsed, I do it all the time and I don't moan about it every time I do. Of course, if they subjects bought up, I'd voice my opinion that IE6 users should upgrade :)

But it's not punishing them when all they need to do is click a few times - it'd be punishing if it were "You've used IE6, your IP has been banned!" ;) But they can easily upgrade to IE7 or FireFox even. It's more like the users are punishing us, because they can't be arsed to do a simple upgrade!
 
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