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I am making a site, and was wondering what the lowest resolution people use is, and the lowest color.

I know tons use 800X600 and 16bit color, but does anyone use lower than 800X600? If so, my site will looks all messed up! So what resolution do you guys use?

I use 1260X1024 and 32bit True Color.
 
My inlaws use some godawful resolution, 400X600 or some crap. There's about and inch and a half of verticle viewable space in IE and you have to scroll to the right on every page. And they use the big buttons. It's so annoying.

And I use 1024X768...
 
1024x768 Is there any smaller? J/K There's actually a script that you can enforce that detects the users current resolution and if it's any smaller than say 1024x768, they can be redirected to a different page were you can explain to them that your site is intended for audiences with resolutions of1024x768 or higher, but if they wish to view it anyway to click [Here], or something to that effect.
 
Originally posted by milefile
My inlaws use some godawful resolution, 400X600 or some crap. There's about and inch and a half of verticle viewable space in IE and you have to scroll to the right on every page. And they use the big buttons. It's so annoying.

And I use 1024X768...
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I hate that. My brother in law had a 10 inch screen or something ridiculous like that and couldn't get any better than 400x600. Talk about annoying. You had to scroll down and pan right to see a whole page. I love my 21" monitor.
 
1024 x 768, color set to "Thousands" (I'm assuming that's the same as 32 bit True Color)
 
My last job had an old 10" monitor that maxxed out at 640x480. You never wanted to surf the web unless it was cnn.com or email or a text-only site. Working with speadsheets all day was a pain.

After six months of working there, I asked the boss for a new monitor, after all, about half the campus was using new 17" ones, it just didn't seem fair. But money was an issue, after all my boss figured my work wasn't all tha important, color layout wasn't necessary.

Well, after a year of working there, I was off one weekday, and the monitor amazingly blew out on my day off. My boss was using my computer at the time, too! So when I came into work the next day, I had a nice new 15" monitor (well, it was a big improvement!) on my desk.

My boss said, "How did you ever get anything done with that old thing! It blew up right in the middle of something important!" So now you have that monitor you've always wanted! Needless to say, resolution, refresh rate, and clarity made my job a little easier for the next 18 months.

I've always guessed the elcetrical gods were in my favor that day.
 
All my PC's are set to 1024 x 768 (anything higher tends to give me sqinty eyes) although my crappy upstairs monitor can only go up to 75hz refresh. Although when I do video editing I like to up the resolution a bit.

I run all my PC's in 16 bit colour, I mean can you tell the difference between 16 million colours and 60,000+ colours.

I cant.
 
Originally posted by pupik
My last job had an old 10" monitor that maxxed out at 640x480. You never wanted to surf the web unless it was cnn.com or email or a text-only site. Working with speadsheets all day was a pain.

After six months of working there, I asked the boss for a new monitor, after all, about half the campus was using new 17" ones, it just didn't seem fair. But money was an issue, after all my boss figured my work wasn't all tha important, color layout wasn't necessary.

Well, after a year of working there, I was off one weekday, and the monitor amazingly blew out on my day off. My boss was using my computer at the time, too! So when I came into work the next day, I had a nice new 15" monitor (well, it was a big improvement!) on my desk.

My boss said, "How did you ever get anything done with that old thing! It blew up right in the middle of something important!" So now you have that monitor you've always wanted! Needless to say, resolution, refresh rate, and clarity made my job a little easier for the next 18 months.

I've always guessed the elcetrical gods were in my favor that day.
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Yes, I would say they were in your favor.
 
1024x768x32

I always make sites 800x600 friendly. You really can't go wrong and I wouldn't think you'd need much more space unless you really wanna cram a lot in there. You may at most get 5% of all visitors that go under 800x600 and that's really pushing it. Here's a link to stats for a Final Fantasy site I made with a few thousand hits counted.
640x480: 1.07%
Other: 0.53%

http://extremetracking.com/open;sys?login=piguy
 
Originally posted by MistaY
So is anyone able to explain the visual difference between 16bit and 32bit?
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You don't really notice the difference between 16-24-32bit color depth until you look at gradients (the careful selection of pixels between any two colors). Sometimes, photographs look a little more grainy, for example. I see no reason not to use 32-bit nowadays, anyhow.

When I design a website, I aim for 800x600 because there's many people who don't ever change the settings on their computer. They probably don't care or know how to, either. In some cases, public computers don't allow you to change the settings, and in a world where not everyone's eyesight is the best...
 
Other Resolution - 1017 - %91.79
1024x768 - 40 - %3.61
1280x1024 - 22 %1.99
800x600 - 21 - %1.90
1152x864 - 4 - %0.36
1600x1280 - 3 - %0.27
640x480 - 1 - %0.09

What the heck is "other resolution" thats alot!
 
Where'd you get those stats? Sometimes it's not able to detect the resolution or it may have a itty bitty res or one huge or just maybe they may have multiple monitors set up.
 

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