Screen resolutions and side bars.

[KidsBeeHappy]

1024 is the best screen resolution for my website resolution per google stats, as its the single largest resolution size, and the majortiy of other resolutions are of a higher px, rather than lower.

But. My question.

Do you build the website to this size, or do you allow for the fact that people tend to browse with a sidebar? (consumer type, home market. So, not design/techy people etc).

And what's the techy term for floating window size that automatically resets given the size of the viewers window.

Many thanks

[FireFleur]

Liquid design or layout is the term, where the layout will expand to the width.

The problem with 1024+ is the text width, it can become a little long and undesigned, 800 gives a good readable width. So, people use the to reign the text in.

A play on the liquid layout is white space expansion, there the columns are held in width, but white space columns in between expand to push the design out.

So:

A1B1C
A11B11C
A111B111C

640 for mobiles is still with us, 800 for some small laptots, so hard to say, I am going 1024 from 800 for some of my sites at the moment. For ecommerce I would say 1024 and a mobile site now.