The move to 1024
MattHave you noticed that websites are getting wider recently..?
If you’ll excuse the jargon, it wasn’t so long ago that everyone was designing websites to fit to 800 pixels wide. That is, they were designed to fit on a small screen so that the website would fit within the majority of users’ screens.
Earlier this year, we moved our own WebCreationUK site to a larger size, which is called 1024 as it fits a screen resolution of 1024 pixels. This decision was taken in light of the declining share of screens which had a lower resolution and the chance to utilise the space afforded by a higher resolution. From the link below you can see that 800×600 only accounted for 8% of screen users even back in January of this year http://www.w3schools.com
Since this move many other high-profile sites have also moved to this larger size including:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
As a result, the majority of sites we’re currently designing are created to fill this new size and you can view these on our website design portfolio
Also if you’d like to redesign your website to fit to this new larger size, please contact our sales department and take advantage of this extra ‘real estate’ to sell your services..
Tags: web design, website standards
September 27th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Even mobiles now contain connectivity with external screens to utilize their so called wide screen resolution. Someone back in 2007 returned a 22″ monitor to customer service saying “This is just long and not as high as it says on the box”. Some companies do show 22″ and then have a small graphic on packaging displaying how to end up with 22inch by Pythagoras theorem.
Anyways well said, most of us are moving to 1024 and fluid flow rather than static middle of the page 800×600 tiny websites.