What is your screen resolution?

[TFP Admin]

To design for the majority of our members, I thought it would be a good idea to ask what you use for your screen resolution size. You can find this info on a PC by right-clicking an empty area of your desktop and select Properties. Then go to the Settings tab and you will see the box on the left side that says, "Screen resolution."

My monitors are set at 1280 by 1024 pixels. The statistics software I use on the server says that most of our visitors use 1024 by 768. Statistics can be wrong.

It might also be useful to know what the other box says - Color quality. Mine is set to "Highest (32 bit)".

Some of you have more than one computer, so the poll allows you to select more than one option.

Thanks for helping me out.

T

[Jon Scanlan]

My Laptop says 1280x800

[Kman]

Mine says 1400x1050 with 32 bit

[TFP Admin]

Sounds like you both have wide screen monitors. At 1400 pixels, do you usually open browser windows full screen, or keep them smaller so you don't have such a wide expanse to read or look at a lot of empty background?

T

[Kman]

I own a wide screen, but my main CP is in the shop right now. I'm working off a Dell laptop. I do open the screens wide, though.

[rusty baker]

Right click on the screen, doesn't work on Vista.

[Bud Cline]

Right click on the screen, doesn't work on Vista.

[rusty baker]

1280x800 32 bit

[cproader]

Kman said my main CP is in the shop right now.

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I'm 1280x800 32...........

[Darren Ramey]

1920 x 1200 on the PC

I almost always have my browser open full screen unless I'm comparing something and need 2 windows open side by side.

480 x 320 on the iPhone

[TFP Admin]

rusty baker and Bud Cline said Right click on the screen, doesn't work on Vista.

Oh jeez, I didn' know - I don't use Vista. Maybe Nick knows.

Darren Ramey said 1920 x 1200 on the PC I almost always have my browser open full screen unless I'm comparing something and need 2 windows open side by side. 480 x 320 on the iPhone

From one extreme to another. When I got a second monitor I tried setting it up as a single wide one and, man, that was way too wide for everything. These new wide screen monitors (wider than 1280) seem to waste a lot of real estate on the Interweb - at least for all the websites I usually spend time on. But there are so many websites out there that are built to 800px wide standards, that narrow format seems lost on so many monitors. For a long time, I was designing in fluid width - the layout expands and contracts with the size of the browser like it does on this forum - but I switched to fixed width a while back, gradually increasing the size to fit 1024px or wider.

Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be wise to start including a design for mobile devices for the forum. The user can select the style from a drop-down at the bottom of a page. Darren may be the first one to report using one, but I bet he's not the only one. Darren, do you do an awful lot of scrolling when you go online with that thing?

Thanks for the input, guys. Let's see what others are saying.

T

[Nick Arrera]

This should help ..
Windows Vista Help: Change screen resolution

[Darren Ramey]

TFP in its current incarnation handles wide screen resolutions just fine. I have about an inch and a half of dead space on both sides of the screen. I admit it can look a little odd on posts that contain a lot of small paragraphs as most of them will just be one line, but it works for me.

TFP Admin said Darren, do you do an awful lot of scrolling when you go online with that thing?

Oh yeah, but it is fairly painless. The UI on the iPhone was really well thought out. My only complaint as far as here (and on the phpbb boards I run) is that the icon that takes you to the first unread post in a thread is tiny and I have to magnify the screen like crazy to make it big enough to hit without fatfingering it.

[Bud Cline]

HOLY CRAP!!! That was scary! Just for fun I changed my screen resolution as a result of this damned thread and when I did I lost my start button. It was wa-a-a-a-y over
<<<<<<<<<<<< there.

Had a helluva time figuring out how to change it back.

Now that I found my way back into the Control Panel and rescended my last command of genius I now know that I am using 1024 X 768.

I have about about six inches of screen left over but I maintain a right collum that displays the time and weather and MSNBC News headlines.

OK OK OK, 1024 X 768 and I'm thinkin' I'm real happy with that.










Note to self: (Hey dumbass don't EVER do that again!)

[Bill Watson]

1280 X 1024 and 32 bit.