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800x600 51.89%
1024x768 30.16%
Unknown 7.03%
640x480 5.31%
1152x884 2.68%
1280x1024 2.54%
1600x1200 0.38%
If pages are orentaited towards professional webmasters then fuck em' and just design for 1024 and make sure it's readable at higher resolutions,(ie. text not too small)... If they can't set their monitors to 1024+, get a monitor capable of doing a decent 1024+ or are too slack to have them at 1024 or higher then I don't see them as going to be majorly productive less they're spammers. [chill I know some of you will just be slack 800 evangalistic webmasters that like the clostraphobic feel of being jammed into a locker to do your designs... but most shouldn't be that fucking crazy]
As for =HUNGRYMAN=-s "gawd aweful 15" VGA monitors" implying that people using 15inch's are also the ones using 800x600 crap, most 17inch ones I've seen configured are for 800x600 crap.
Most 17 inch monitors that are cheap like dirt and nabbed up quick by customers often only have a crappy max. resolution of 1024x768 @ an eye burning 60 fucking hertz.
Get a quality monitor that runs the resolution you want at 75Hz or above... No flicker and less eyestrain... Cept from the perving zoom lean-in feature.. hehe :P
I run my 15inch @ 1280x1024 @ 85Hz.
To [Labret] if you mean that you also design in 800x600 ... how can I put this nicely... "YOU'RE FUCKING CRAZY" .. there that feels good
1. Design sites with the most comfortable working resolution you can.
2. Design with 800x600 in mind as target surfer resolution.
3. Make sure sites look and handle ok at 640, but don't give too much of a shit if there is the odd banner wrap... there's so little room on 640 for ads.
4. TEST AT ALL USER RESOLUTIONS... EVEN THE BIG ONES... Sometimes your text will get bigger on the lower resolutions and become UNREADABLY SMALL on higher resolutions.
5. Encourage your surfers to get an 800 resolution going by NOT fully catering to 640... How else will we get these slack bastards to upgrade, or GOD FORBID, change their screen resolutions.
6. If you REALLLLLLLLY wanna use the max screen space available WHY NOT do a test for screen resolution or browser pixel size... Then filter/re-direct the traffic to the pages designed to cater for those resolutions.
I do this resolution detection with the link below if you'd like to see it in action [couldn't be stuffed doing a browser pixel detect so have your browsers at the normal maxed size that users run at]
<A HREF="http://sextoysinternational.com/resolutiondetect.html" target="sextoysres"><font color="#9999FF">sextoysinternational.com/resolutiondetect</font></a>
I haven't bothered changing the ads around much yet but you can see that on different resolutions you will have a different frames setup, or for 640 get kicked to a really bland page etc..
Notice the URL should show your running screen size.
[setup options put you in best page size from choice of 640, 800, 1024 or 1280 ... page sizes higher run with 1280 pages]
[ie. a 1000 screen size would show a url with 800 and a screen size of 1024->1279 would run with page of 1024 etc.]
Later, RIPP

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