I've just purchased a new pc wth widescreen monitor and I have noticed how sites look differently and can be difficult to read and use when they are set to a percentage for width and not by pixles.

Having previously used a screen resolution of 1024*768 then moving to my new resolution I have made changes to the forum as it was very difficuly to read on a 21" monitor.

For all our regular users do you have any problems with the forum and out of interest what resolution do you use on your monitor? as I have now changed the forum's width to 800 pixles.

The forum has changed over the past few days - it only uses up the middle 50% of the screen. I haven't changed my monitor or resolution.

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It will have changed, I have set it to a fixed width rather than a percentage depending on your screen size which is how it worked before.

So is the current size readable? The more feedback I get I can then find a happy medium.

1280x1024 and looks perfect to me. I don't have my browser windows filling the monitor (I keep them to about 5/6ths of the screen width - don't ask ;) )

770px wide is good for the people who still have 'small' monitors and browser bars that might steal some width. I use 770px wide for websites, for this reason. So do a lot of commercial websites - random example www.habitat.co.uk

To be honest it now looks silly where I am sitting! Only half the browser window is being used - the rest is white space! :rolleyes:

Interesting stats available at this website. I've no idea how accurate they are, they could be entirely fictitious, but hey.

There seems to have been a steady and rapid decline in the number of people using 800 x 600 in the last few months - it was only 14% of users in January 2007.

I remember reading somewhere that the self-appointed website design police frown upon fixed-width designs, although probably this is largely because they all own monitors that are at least 4 feet wide.

I have put the forum back to 90% width, I have just looked at my screen resolution its 1680*1050 on a 21" monitor.

Its taking a while to get used to, but it does have its advantages.

Thanks for putting it back to 90% - much better IMO. :)