what web-size should I use, 1024x768 or 1366x768 or 1920x1080?

[volki]

Some years ago, I made my Homepage in size 1024x768. Now I try to "renovate" it

As People use generally bigger monitors, 19' to 24', I think I can use a bigger size
My own Monitors are 24' 16:9 Full-HD for video-editig, but I cant expect everybody unsing this size, but 19' should be ok.

What du you think?
(The Homepage is not for mobil use, only for desktop use)

Sorry my English is not very good.

[gwpriester]

Welcome to TalkGraphics

I think you are still OK at 1024 x 768. See http://techzoom.org/most-used-displa...of-april-2011/

There is a larger number of people who now use 1366 x 768 but the next most popular size is 1024 x 768.

With Web Designer 10 Premium and Designer Pro X10 you can create "variants" for several different sizes that will load the best version for each browser.

[jon404]

I'm finding that an 816 wide x 1000 high page looks OK on my Acer netbook, with user scrolling, as well as on an Apple iPad Air (no need to swipe). if you want a webpage size that sort of works OK, not perfect, but OK if you don't have time to make variants...

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi Volki,

I tend to stop at 960px screen widths.

The reason for this is quite simple, as you state you can't know what screen resolution a visitor is viewing your site. However from w3schools.com (an excellent resource) they state:

As of today, 99% of your visitors have a screen resolution of 1024x768 pixels or higher:

So why stick to 960px wide sites. A great example of why to do this is to view TalkGraphics forum in a maximised browser window. This fills the whole screen (mine = 1920 x 1080) and I find reading long paragaphs of text very difficult. As you read from left to right, come to the end of the line, scan back to the next row, whoops! you've skipped two lines. Therefore I always view TalkGraphics in a smaller window. I can only liken it to reading a book with 20 inch wide pages.

[volki]

I made a snapshot of my monitor (24‘, 1920x1080, Full-HD ) and made the forum-site as broad as possible. But I don’t know how many pixel that is?
My homepage is not “directed” to viewers with mobile devices, rather to the “Video-editing-community” and they have usually big(er) monitors
I made an index-site with 1280x1024. In preview, it fills the monitor only half.
Then I made one with 1440x1024. This is too big.
So now I’m doing one with 1366x1024.

[gwpriester]

Well, as Egg points out, the text on your site is very difficult to read.

Just because your site is 1366 wide does not mean that your text has to be that wide.

My first sentence above is easy to read. The second sentence is OK but not so easy.

If we put the to together, they are harder to read:

Well, as Egg points out, the text on your site is very difficult to read. Just because your site is 1366 wide does not mean that your text has to be that wide.

So my advice is make your screen as wide as you need, but make your text areas

narrower, or in two or more columns.

[volki]

Well, sorry about this misunderstanding
The above "text" is not meant to be reed, but should show you how much space I need on my monitor, if I pull the “Forum site” all the way, to the left and right.
(Snapshot of the whole 24’-Monitor)
In the time between, I decided to use 1280 x 1024 for my website

[richinri]

Depends on the content. If your page is mostly text, you don't want the website to be wide unless you are controlling the maximum width of text columns.