RE: FLASH: Designing for Monitor Resolution

[King McCarthy]

These stats are in the range I've been viewing.  I remember going to

statmarket.com just a few months ago (when they were free), and noticed the

same.  Another source I found was http://www.websnapshot.com


I've created a screen that I show clients.

http://www.mombobeat.com/screen.html   I then have them choose the

resolution and font styles/sizes they desire. It takes into consideration

the huge header real estate some of these browsers can take up.  Some

clients I've had insist on accommodating the 640 x 480 user (not 480 with

browser header), while others insist on 800 x 600.  On our last project, we

chose to make all critical content fall within 760 x 430.  The client liked

the 800 x 600 target audience, so we noticed that when the page has extended

info, we narrowed the number to 760 to make room for the scroll bar on the

right.


My recommendation to those with 1024 plus monitor resolution designers

(probably most of us here), is to set your display resolutions down to 640 x

480, them 800 x 600 etc to view work you've done.  Make sure you view it

within both browsers.  It's an eye-opener.


I am presently creating a test page that shows screen captures with a

variety of fonts and styles, from the PC and Mac.  I'm sure we've all been

horrified to see our work created on one platform, and then later viewed on

another.


I'm interested to know how others address this and issues of color.  I know

the most common color setting is "thousands/16 bit" followed by "millions/24

bit."  However, from what I gather, there are still about 10% to 12% of

users browsing with 256 colors.  That's one in ten.  I'm sure at 256 colors,

those users find heavily "color banded" sites regularly.


King




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Subject: Re: FLASH: Designing for Monitor Resolution





>>>"Im not sure I believe these statistics. Two questions: Does anyone

have a source for hard statistics about monitor resolution in use?

What resolution do people think one should design for?"



Hi Bill...


Unfortunately, all the stats I have seen confirm what you have already

found.

We still need to design with the 800x600 resolution in mind because they are

the

majority.


Here is a resource with "up to the minute" stats on monitor resolution and

more:


http://www.statmarket.com


WOAH... umm... nevermind!!!!  That site used to be a free site... now it is

$795.00 per MONTH.  (RIPOFF!)  Anyway... trust me... the stats you have are

right on track with the numbers I have seen recently. If you (or anyone

else)

find another resorce for stats like this, let me know.  A free one would be

nice. :-)


Good luck.


J





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