What size do you make fixed-width sites?

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If you create a fixed width site, what size do you make it?

800 x 600
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57%
1024 x 768
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29%
1280 x 1024
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Other
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14%
 
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What size do you make fixed-width sites?

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I was just wondering whether 800 x 600 is still the most popular.
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The last "fixed width" (I use that term loosely, as technically it was fluid) site I did was for 800x600. That was three to four years ago.
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800x600 (max-width of 760px is safe across most/all browsers)

Though I hate making them, my clients seem to love them.
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I make them 780 width to provide room for the vertical scroll bar and give a little padding, otherwise, even people at 800x600 have to scroll horizontally.

I'd like to know how yahoo is doing it now to display a width that is greater if your screen settings are greater than 800 pixels wide. As far as I can see, they're not using javascript.
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Burrito wrote:I make them 780 width to provide room for the vertical scroll bar and give a little padding, otherwise, even people at 800x600 have to scroll horizontally.
Are you sure 780 will work with ie? I just tried and it's causing h-scrolling. 770 works w/o page margins, and 760 works no matter what (at least in my testing)
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Post by Luke »

Man... I'm trying to make a site that is fluid, with a minimum and maximum width, and it's pretty difficult. Any pointers?
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By now, i use 1024 x 768.

~960 Pixels wide more specifically....

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nickvd wrote:Are you sure 780 will work with ie? I just tried and it's causing h-scrolling. 770 works w/o page margins, and 760 works no matter what (at least in my testing)
no, you're right, at 780 the scroll bar appears, but they're not forced to scroll. If you take the margins off, the scroll bar appears (if I remember correctly) but you can't even move it. While potentially an eye sore, scrolling isn't required to see any content on the page.
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Post by s.dot »

From my statistics 800x600 is second most popular. Behind 1024x768.
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800x600
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nickvd wrote:Though I hate making them, my clients seem to love them.
They do have a nice "paper" sort of feel. Because they are rigid it feels more like you're viewing a document. I personally quite like fixed-width layouts providing they aren't all squished up in the middle of the page. Even on a fixed-width layout whitespace is your friend.

I still design everything I do around 800x600 (760px max width).
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Fixed-width is a bad practice... I hope multi-columns with CSS will soon be broadly supported.
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theYinYeti wrote:Fixed-width is a bad practice...
Why is that?
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:
theYinYeti wrote:Fixed-width is a bad practice...
Why is that?
I second that; how can it possibly be a bad practise? Sounds more like personal preference to me. That's like saying "pink tones in web design are bad practise", but really, I quite like pink.
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