Thursday, January 5, 2012

Default sizes for a web page - width and height


Let's see what are the default sizes for a web page

Here I like to say that we should be care about devices that users are uses for browsing websites. Mainly we are point the desktop view of the website.

Simply now days, developers are trying to use big width websites with a huge height. Actually this is not a usability targeted design.

Most of website designers / developers are using 1024 / 800 / 600 as width of a website. And 900 / 1200 and more for the height.

We know website are views on a monitor. So, main thing we need to set width / height for the monitor sizes. As we know that you and most of the users are does NOT like to scroll horizontally. And vertically is not a big problem, but does NOT like to scroll down for an hour time to see the website.

Main issue is comes with width of a website. The best width size is 960px / 1000 px.

With 960px width size never users will not need to scroll horizontally even they uses 15" monitor. Also 1000px width size has the same result.

Some of the fresh developers are trying to set width as 1024px. Because of internationally minimum screen resolution size is 1024 X 768. But when vertical scrolling shows it is reduce view-able area to 1002px. That's why we cant use 1024px as max width for a website.

Best height is depend on website type. It is good to limit height as 1200px maximum.   

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