hi, i am having to make my pages 1000px wide to look right on my widescreen monitor, does that mean most viewers will have to scroll to see my full page?

They have to scroll if their screen resolution is 800px. I'm not sure how wide in pixel the scroll bar is in 1024px resolution.

ok thank you. derek

When I make a a layout that wide, I go no wider than about 1010px, to accommodate for the scrollbars on a 1024px wide screen. 800px screens are becoming more and more rare, and the target audience of the websites I make are mostly people with money, but if you think your audience may have a narrow screen, you should work to accommodate this.

1000px is fine for the standard minimum resolution of 1024x768.

You can test your page for different screen sizes and in different browsers at browsershots.org. It's free and easy to use.

When desining a site you need to think of your target audience and design it for them. you could also use JavaScript to detect the screen resolution and load a different css file or you could make your web site fluid.

I wouldn't really want to have content running all the way across the page. It's kinda overwhelming. I'd keep it down around 800, personally.

you can use CSS as background...or javascript to detect a screen size then redirect them to specified page

I'm pretty sure most people have computers equipped with a resolution to handle that size of page. However, I'm not exactly sure on the average resolution.

Best way do a website:

1. Find the lowest possible resolution, either via the web or in person (aka ask)
2. Develop your website in that resolution
3. I've seen sites developed in 320x240 resolution (that's a resolution for portable devices) for example.

Hth

To remove the horizontal scroll bar just include:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
.html, body {
overflow-x:hidden;
}
-->
</style>

BEFORE the </HEAD> tag, but make sure when you look at your site in decreased resolutions that it moves over, or is jello.

I tend to design everything so it looks good on an 800px resolution though recently had members of a community complaining that it wasnt wide enough. Increased the width to 900px and they're still saying the board is too narrow.

I hate the thought of low resolutions having a horizontal scrollbar but decided I have to go with what the core userbase of the forum needs/wants

Originally Posted by sitenoob

I'm pretty sure most people have computers equipped with a resolution to handle that size of page. However, I'm not exactly sure on the average resolution.

Screen resolution for targeted audiences was a big issue when I was running in the online arcade niche.

Someone posted their statistics on Talk Arcades, and nearly 3/4 of their traffic is on 1024x768 resolution. Believe it or not, the lowest counted resolution was 800x600.

Originally Posted by wayfarer07

When I make a a layout that wide, I go no wider than about 1010px, to accommodate for the scrollbars on a 1024px wide screen. 800px screens are becoming more and more rare, and the target audience of the websites I make are mostly people with money, but if you think your audience may have a narrow screen, you should work to accommodate this.

I'd like to make a correction. Shortly after I posted this, I was called on to widen a site I had to a fixed width that would accomodate 1024px wide monitor (we didn't care about 800x600 resolution because the site is targeted at big-time real-estate investors).

I previously said 1010px was enough to account for scrollbars. This is incorrect. A correct width would be 990px. I wouldn't go wider than that.

silverglade,

All you need to remember is this:

Develop websites in the LOWEST resolution possible...With that said, (as long as you have your div tag(s) aligned correctly you will see your website in a non-scrollable fashion, if that's the goal you want to reach.

Originally Posted by silverglade

hi, i am having to make my pages 1000px wide to look right on my widescreen monitor, does that mean most viewers will have to scroll to see my full page?

That screen resolution is good for your monitor. If the visitor uses 800x600px monitor, definitely the will scroll your page.

You could also try using the min-width css property, instead of having a fixed width

http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/pr_dim_min-width.asp

You could also try using the min-width css property, instead of having a fixed width

Min/max width/height is not supported by IE6, so that presents a hurdle.

If you have a page with "1000px wide" , many peple must scoll to see all