Web Designer page sizes

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To date, I have only light experience with website design. I expect that to change in very short order, given this amazing new tool called Xara Web Designer.

How adequate are the three standard page sizes that are offered at 'Options > Page Size' for quality website development?

640pix wide (VGA)
760pix wide (SVGA) « not 800?
955pix wide (XGA) « not 1024?

Thanks for your experienced feedback.

[Soquili]

Hi Curtis,

The sizes offered allow for the scrollbar on the right side of a browser window.

Page sizes vary alot on the web but those offered are very common.

[nickydude]

The sizes offered allow for the scrollbar on the right side of a browser window.

As I found out the hard way.

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It seems that the 640pix width (VGA) would not allow for a vertical scroll bar ... ?

I note, by the way, that the Xara.com website is about 940pix wide.

[pressurepros]

The 955 is a good compromise.

The stats across my website show less than 5% of people use under 1024x768 resolution.

[Soquili]

The 640 pixel width is common on the web. I don't think allowance for scrollbar is included because a 640 x 480 screen width has not been common since Windows 3.0. Windows 95 defaulted to 800 x 600.


I believe that Xara has a 3rd party company create their website.

Xara Group Ltd has a small group of employees and they are hard pressed to create excellent software. I can see why they would hire another company to maintain their website.

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Although my screen resolution is 1280x1024, my browser window invariably occupies only part of that real estate. I think the 955 option might be just about right for what I have in mind. At least, I think the Xara site is a comfortable size.

Am I correct in assuming that there is no need to leave any whitespace/margin around the xWD pages when laying out a design? If I were doing printed matter, for example, it would be important to allow for printing limitations, binding, etc.

[dogbertbh]

Am I correct in assuming that there is no need to leave any whitespace/margin around the xWD pages when laying out a design? If I were doing printed matter, for example, it would be important to allow for printing limitations, binding, etc.

I know in XX4 the website went right to the edge of the 'paper' with no worries.

[Soquili]

Curtis it has been a long time since I had anything professionally printed but I do not recall having to compensate for binding. The printer used my word document without any changes.

[ArchMed1]

I use 1040, 780 and 480 variants. Seems to work very well in test.