Gay Members Area 800x600 Or A High Resolution

**IntenseCash.com** · 10-13-2005, 06:53 PM

We are redesigning all our gay members sections and are trying to figure out if we should still go with a resolution that is 800x600 or go higher. This site http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp is showing that only 25% are using 800x600 now and 55% are using 1024x768. I also like to keep in mind that gay people have more disposable income so wouldn't they have higher resolutions too,

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Thanks,
Mark

**Lee** · 10-13-2005, 07:00 PM

You know this is going to sound strange but..

We typically design sites that are going to sell instead of based on a resolution that a surfer may use, one way to acheive this is by using a percentage value for table widths instead of a fixed pixel size.

Even 8x6 resolution surfers can see a table as its supposed to look if its set at 80% width

Regards,

Lee

**basschick** · 10-13-2005, 07:25 PM

obviously you don't want to lose 25% of your joins/members. so design for 800x600 but the widest possible 800x600, and make the page fairly long. that way the tour won't look like a postage stamp in 1024.

davespeedoevans · 10-14-2005, 03:19 AM

I've always designed my sites in 800x600 (well not always I did originally do everything 640x480) but over the last couple of months I've been thinking of going higher.

But like yourself - too many (25% is way too many) still use 800x600.

I totally agree with Lee and Basschick - I can't afford to piss off 25% of my current OR MORE IMPORTANTLY potential members. And these days I only use a laptop myself so until I get that massive 40 something inch monitor - I don't really want more than 800x600.

Just my thoughts.