for sites that arent.. er.. how do you say it.. expandable, with fixed size, what dimensions do you use when you design? for a site with a portfolio for art and video work la lets say

This most basic thing to consider is the resolutions that your target audience's PC are using. A very good example is that if you designing fix width websites which your main audience is from the corporate side (where PC is only for paperwork and printing), the safest things is that you should set as 800x600 since most of the small and big companies still running at older Windows (eg 98, ME)...

But in your case whereby your main audience are creative people and tech-savvy where most likely they are running the latest OS (eg XP), i recommend 1024 x 768 is the right dimension for your site.

Well's that my opinion, hope it'll help...

This post has been edited by chee_y: Sep 15 2006, 08:47 AM

the best solution for dimension related prob, you could try for liquid based layout, where the witdh is in percentage..

I use 760 x 420 (pixels).

As long everything fit in one screen, then can already.

ideally the resolution will be lesser than 1024, more like 1004.

remember you need to allocate a margin for the scrollbar.

webmonkey's article still lives until today..

http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/99/41/i....html?tw=design

cool. didn't know webmonkey has that.

==> webmonkey's article still lives until today.. webmonkey dying today ah?

sweet. really helpful

thanks guys, i think i have an idea now, i might show it to you guys if i ever finish it