Tristan Botly » agency http://www.tristanbotly.com A digital project manager and Wordpress advocate living in Bangkok Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:52:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 What resolution should I design to? http://www.tristanbotly.com/what-resolution-should-i-design-to/ http://www.tristanbotly.com/what-resolution-should-i-design-to/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:52:36 +0000 http://www.tristanbotly.com/?p=189 Personally I try to use 960 for the width. the argument for using 960 was it’s divisible by 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, and 16 which means your grid options are endless, and of course it fits within the most popular 1024 width.

HOWEVER With the soon to be released I-Phone 4 working on an incredible 960 by 640 pixel maybe it is time to look at adjusting this slightly to accommodate the latest IPhone. 50 million I-Phones have been sold since it’s release in 2007 so the market for the new version is looking good.

Now of course people will say you should be building to work on multiple platforms with varying resolutions and to them I say try the real world!

Most graphic designers open up a default PSD file that is set to around 960, this is what they see and what the client sees to sign off. So a slight decrease to fit the frame of the IPhone will mean a horizontal IPhone 4 will be able to display your website in the original look with no horizontal scroll bars which for 20 pixels is just annoying.

I would be interested to know your thoughts…

Buzz it!
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  • You own a business
  • You started this company from the ground up and every dollar earned is 35 cents to pay your ex-wife/husband with
  • You sell a high value product (above $1500’s to a very niche market)

Your web stats show this:

This is a real world example from a client of mine, the average time on one day for 5 users using IE6 was over 3 times as much as the average for the day.*

What would you do when your agency says we are planning on not supporting IE6 any more.

After all it was only 5 potential customers right?

VOTE NOW!

I will publish the result of the poll on my twitter and buzz so follow me to find out how it goes:
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* Unfortunately at the moment we are lacking good goal data to see if these users are active in the buying process, I felt for a conversation starter though this was sufficient to post.

Buzz it!
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