feedback on website page width please ..

[bluezebra]

:?: I wonder if any of you skilled IT people can give me your opinions on this please ...

I am looking at how my site has been designed and in particular the width of the home page which currently has a width of over 957 pixels.

I understand that this may require some visitors to have to scroll to the right. What do you you think about visitors having to scroll to the right? Is it a bad design? I'd be grateful for any feedback.

Thanks :)

[Top Hat]

Personally I hate horizontal scrolling.

http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2005/April/res.php
29% of your visitors will have to scroll.

[epiphany]

Really it won't be that much work to make it a little narrower :) Personally I would go for 800, 850 at a push.

[Rob Holmes]

I'd go even lower - a total maximum of 780 but go for 750 if you can.

Do some experiments with monitor resolutions etc and see!

Rob

[epiphany]

Aye there there is the auto margin issue so it probably best to lob 16 pixels of the width; then at 784 it will sit nice and tight for the 800 brigade :) It's been a while since I moved away from html to CSS, as you can tell :D

[LT]

i also agree that any kind of horizontal scrolling tends to indicate a home made site rather than a professional one. remember, your website is your main chance to create an impression!!