Monitor Resolution?

[Roy]

Just wondering what's the average monitor resoultion is these days?

I'm running my desktop at 1680x1050 and my laptop is 1920x1200. My website is designed to run where the photos fill the screen and it works like i want at 1920x1200 but at 1680x1050 I'm getting a zoomed view that is not what I want and I'm wondering if I'm going to have to resize every image??? Not really what I wanted to do but I want the images to look right for that website. Appreciate any feedback. It will tell me what I need to do about the problem.

[dryicerx]

Originally Posted by Roy

Just wondering what's the average monitor resoultion is these days?

The resolution used by users vary depending on the website. (For example I'd guess TPF all using very high resolution, compared to a knitting site with granny's using low resolution). Since this is for your site, instead of guessing, why not measure it exactly the resolutions your site visitors use with Google Analytics.

Usually for web design, you want to make sure it works nicely on 1024x768 or pushing it at 1280x1024. I checked your site and resized the browser to several sizes, seems to work just fine...



edit: Ok, I think I see what your problem is. If I use a resolution such as 1200x600... the images would resize down instead being shown with the top and bottom cropped off to take the entire screen, is that what you meant? If so, I think that's how it should be. If you let the image take the entire width/height and arbitrarily crop the sides, that would make it look horrible.

[klynam]

Originally Posted by Roy

Just wondering what's the average monitor resoultion is these days?

I deal with this all the time in web development. There is no standard.

Most everyone is at 1024x768 (min) these days but most of the largest internet sites are still set for 800x600 compatibility.

If there is any question, I typically design to one of these and float the content rather than going for the "fill the screen" approach to avoid the problems you're having.

JM2C...

Edit - you really need to bring down your image sizes (or get on a faster server or something) they take f-o-r-e-v-e-r to load...

[Roy]

Thanks for the responses. I contacted the people that make the template and they suggest cropping to 1900x1200 or 1900x1000 at 72DPI. Their editor adjusts to 72 DPI they say and I had been cropping 1900x1200 at 240 DPI. Either way, I'm not getting what I thought I'd get when I view on my destop which has a Dell 2005WS.
I may have to float the content if I don't get a better answer. Kind of defeats the purpose I was purchased this for but I do want folks to see my work as it was intended and not with heads cut off.

Kevin, are you saying my site loads slow? That wasn't an issue for me. If it loads slow for other folks, that ain't good either...

[dmcantrell]

Originally Posted by Roy

Kevin, are you saying my site loads slow? That wasn't an issue for me. If it loads slow for other folks, that ain't good either...

The images loaded just fine for me. To be more specific, I did not notice any lag in the image loading. They seemed to load in time for the page transition, which is "fast enough" for all intents and purposes (in my opinion).

[Roy]

Thanks again. I have no way of knowing what people see on their computer screen. All I can see is on what I have. I've got several wedding I want to upload and I really don't want to size the photos more than once if possible.

[dryicerx]

Originally Posted by Roy

... I have no way of knowing what people see on their computer screen. All I can see is on what I have....

Yes you can, just resize your browser to different sizes and see how it looks. It's flash, so it will render identical for everyone regardless browser/os/flash version. The different between each user is the flash applet's size, which you can change by resizing the browser window.

(Alternative to just eye-balling the browser resize, and If you want to resize the browser to exact pixel to see how it will look, get the Firefox plugin called "Web Developer", then select the resize tool and set the resolution you want to see it in)

[plph56]

You need to make sure that your website looks ok in all types of resolutions from 800x600 right through to 1900x1200. You can even get free software which will help you to check what you site will look like at each resolution.

[joedanger11]

Originally Posted by plph56

You need to make sure that your website looks ok in all types of resolutions from 800x600 right through to 1900x1200. You can even get free software which will help you to check what you site will look like at each resolution.

can you suggest a good one?

[jamiewallace]

Google has a great free tool here: Browser Size

Just plug your website in and see how people see it by percentage.

[Roy]

Y'all are right. Even in ie explorer 8 if you go tools/ developer tools/ tools/ resize. You can change the settings for monitor resolutions. I never knew it could be done this way so y'all forced me to learn something new.

It's nice to know you never get too old to learn.

[CaptainTom]

Roy
I'm using Chrome and your site loaded very quickly on my dinosaur.
However, the pop up menu disappeared before I could make a selection.
The next time, I was able to access 'about me' but the selection menu was gone and I was stuck there.

[Roy]

Tom,
You have to move the mouse over the menu. It works like auto-hide on the windows taskbar. It's something I can not change and I suppose it's supposed to hide so as not to be a distraction. Appreciate you taking a look and responding.