Comments on: Most ideal size for your Web Site? http://www.kevinboss.com/blog/most-ideal-size-for-your-web-site/ Website Design, Development, SEO and Marketing in the Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton areas Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.kevinboss.com/blog/most-ideal-size-for-your-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2688 admin Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:31:54 +0000 http://kevinboss.net/?p=20#comment-2688 Thanks for the comment! Thanks for the comment!

]]> By: Jim Hollomon http://www.kevinboss.com/blog/most-ideal-size-for-your-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2687 Jim Hollomon Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:34:42 +0000 http://kevinboss.net/?p=20#comment-2687 Valid point, but difficult to put into practice on eCommerce or showcase sites where lots of graphical elements are vital to the look and feel. I used to do lots of fluid designs. You can use CSS to constrain them so they don't stretch to ridiculous limits on huge monitors where the browsing window is maximized. But I found that my clients simply could not wrap their heads around the graphics that will work on a flex display without leaving acres of white space at high res. They couldn't manage and update the site on their own, even if they had a comercial artist on staff.. In fact, I abandoned flex width on my own site (which is desperately in need of an update) because I just didn't have time to produce the panoramic graphics that will fill a slide show window when it's squished into a 800 x 600 res screen and still fill it without excess white space when it's running at 1600 x 1200. Valid point, but difficult to put into practice on eCommerce or showcase sites where lots of graphical elements are vital to the look and feel. I used to do lots of fluid designs. You can use CSS to constrain them so they don’t stretch to ridiculous limits on huge monitors where the browsing window is maximized. But I found that my clients simply could not wrap their heads around the graphics that will work on a flex display without leaving acres of white space at high res. They couldn’t manage and update the site on their own, even if they had a comercial artist on staff..

In fact, I abandoned flex width on my own site (which is desperately in need of an update) because I just didn’t have time to produce the panoramic graphics that will fill a slide show window when it’s squished into a 800 x 600 res screen and still fill it without excess white space when it’s running at 1600 x 1200.

]]> By: Jon - SEO Manchester http://www.kevinboss.com/blog/most-ideal-size-for-your-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Jon - SEO Manchester Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:42:20 +0000 http://kevinboss.net/?p=20#comment-71 Great article, it's so good to have this data, I keep telling my clients that 800x600 is in the past and some don't believe me. I can not point them to your website... Great article, it’s so good to have this data, I keep telling my clients that 800×600 is in the past and some don’t believe me. I can not point them to your website…

]]> By: David http://www.kevinboss.com/blog/most-ideal-size-for-your-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-70 David Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:28:52 +0000 http://kevinboss.net/?p=20#comment-70 Ignorance is a terrible thing, it's what has given us flat panel monitors and worse... WIDE screen flat panel monitors. People who buy an off-the-shelf computer don't care about quality, and unfortunately this accounts for most people. So it really doesn't matter how you design a website because your audience will be too stupid to care or to know any better. If you do not have a CRT monitor and a computer with a video card then you can't see any website as it was meant to be seen by the web designer. No flat panel monitor can even come close to the number of colors a CRT monitor can display. People have been marketed to rather successfully. They've been told that they don't have enough room for a CRT monitor. Advertisers and marketers give thanks everyday for public education. Without it we wouldn't have nearly the number of easily fooled people that we have in society today. Ignorance is a terrible thing, it’s what has given us flat panel monitors and worse… WIDE screen flat panel monitors. People who buy an off-the-shelf computer don’t care about quality, and unfortunately this accounts for most people. So it really doesn’t matter how you design a website because your audience will be too stupid to care or to know any better.

If you do not have a CRT monitor and a computer with a video card then you can’t see any website as it was meant to be seen by the web designer.

No flat panel monitor can even come close to the number of colors a CRT monitor can display. People have been marketed to rather successfully. They’ve been told that they don’t have enough room for a CRT monitor.

Advertisers and marketers give thanks everyday for public education. Without it we wouldn’t have nearly the number of easily fooled people that we have in society today.

]]> By: double glazing uk http://www.kevinboss.com/blog/most-ideal-size-for-your-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-69 double glazing uk Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:58:09 +0000 http://kevinboss.net/?p=20#comment-69 Surfing on a movie screen..haha..that's a good one. I think it is best to keep it simple with the 800 x 600 for the website to fit on most computer screens, plus people will be familiar with the size of the layout on most computers anywhere. I say stick with the 800 x 600 for now I say. Best of luck, from Dave, your fave <a href="http://www.sehbac.com" rel="nofollow">double glazing</a> guy :) Surfing on a movie screen..haha..that’s a good one. I think it is best to keep it simple with the 800 x 600 for the website to fit on most computer screens, plus people will be familiar with the size of the layout on most computers anywhere.

I say stick with the 800 x 600 for now I say.

Best of luck, from Dave, your fave double glazing guy :)

]]> By: double glazing http://www.kevinboss.com/blog/most-ideal-size-for-your-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-68 double glazing Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:16:44 +0000 http://kevinboss.net/?p=20#comment-68 I think the size is realy important, yes 800 x 600 used to be perfect but as the price of monitors have come down most people who have any money to spend would have a nice pc and glazed moniter screen. I think the size is realy important, yes 800 x 600 used to be perfect but as the price of monitors have come down most people who have any money to spend would have a nice pc and glazed moniter screen.

]]> By: KabonFootprint http://www.kevinboss.com/blog/most-ideal-size-for-your-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-67 KabonFootprint Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:13:33 +0000 http://kevinboss.net/?p=20#comment-67 Web size is the most important part of creating website. Before we creating the design, i am always ask to the clients, what browser that they used, what is screen resolution the used. But for the browser, i always do in Firefox first then the other browser. Web size is the most important part of creating website. Before we creating the design, i am always ask to the clients, what browser that they used, what is screen resolution the used.

But for the browser, i always do in Firefox first then the other browser.

]]> By: collegeblogger http://www.kevinboss.com/blog/most-ideal-size-for-your-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-66 collegeblogger Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:16:12 +0000 http://kevinboss.net/?p=20#comment-66 Makes sense, however I must agree that I do not like seeing sites that are stretched too wide and looking extremely weird. Where is the happy medium? Makes sense, however I must agree that I do not like seeing sites that are stretched too wide and looking extremely weird. Where is the happy medium?

]]> By: Ashley Williams http://www.kevinboss.com/blog/most-ideal-size-for-your-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Ashley Williams Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:06:17 +0000 http://kevinboss.net/?p=20#comment-65 @Kevin: Ahh sprites, that's what they are called! I spent 5 minutes yesterday on Google trying to work out what they were called! Thanks for the article! ;) And in reply to your twitter message (quite new to twitter myself, not sure how replies work), I think the compatibility is quite good, google uses it for its logos - http://www.google.co.uk/images/nav_logo3.png @Kevin: Ahh sprites, that’s what they are called! I spent 5 minutes yesterday on Google trying to work out what they were called! Thanks for the article! ;)

And in reply to your twitter message (quite new to twitter myself, not sure how replies work), I think the compatibility is quite good, google uses it for its logos – http://www.google.co.uk/images/nav_logo3.png

]]> By: Kevin Boss http://www.kevinboss.com/blog/most-ideal-size-for-your-web-site/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Kevin Boss Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:20:34 +0000 http://kevinboss.net/?p=20#comment-64 @Ashley - If you're dealing with enough images, it's totally worth using sprites. Especially if you're serving pages to people on weak wireless signals. Here's a great article on the subject: http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites-what-they-are-why-theyre-cool-and-how-to-use-them/ @Ashley – If you’re dealing with enough images, it’s totally worth using sprites. Especially if you’re serving pages to people on weak wireless signals. Here’s a great article on the subject:
http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites-what-they-are-why-theyre-cool-and-how-to-use-them/

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