What size would you recommend for a page?
I'm building mine at 1024x768, but I'm afraid that 800x600 is the standar, looks like yahoo's is 800x600.
does it matter too much?
also, in dreamweaver mx, is it easy to resize the hole page at once? (how?) or do I have to resize every single table?
Thank you  

Quite a lot of people use 800x600

Higher resolutions are great, if your monitor can handle it, but you would be cutting out quite a lot of people if your site was only useable in 1024x768.

800x600 is still fairly popular.  

I use 1280x1024  

yes.
The standard is still at 800*600 for most of the users on the net (percentage is above 60% i think) so it's better to design your site unless you know a lot of your users have a resolution above that one (i dont know if control panel keeps those statistics, havent played enough with it. You can always install a script that tells you    )

Actually the better thing you can do is just design your table with old school tables (by just setting everything in percent of screen instead of pixel size and try using a lot of background images instead of just normal images. Its a bit harder but it will work with any resolution. Or most of them!) ...or by doing new school CSS positionning of text. Im just starting to get into it but it seems to be really really cool. They have several articles on macromedia's dreamweaver help site about it. Or just do a search for css on google and you'll find most of it  

Stephan...::shakes head:: Design for normal people  

Definitely use % instead of pixel sizes on 'main' tables!   Nobody likes horizontal scroll bars (yukkk)!      

Also, the pages will look better in Netscape if you stay away from 100%.  Use 99% instead.  There is a difference (in NS).  If there are issues with a graphic or bg image, just set your topmargin and leftmargin in body tag to 0.
 
 [ March 25, 2003, 10:01 AM: Message edited by: TWebMan ]

49% of the visitors to my site (I get about 200 per day) have their monitors set to 800x600. 34% use 1024x768, 3% are at 640x480.

Kel

Hola Eduardo, que bien ver a alguien de Mexico por aqui. Vivi por siete anos en Suramerica, entonces siempre me pongo feliz cuando veo a alguien que habla Espańol. Bueno, pero creo que tendre que pasar a Ingles para que los otros no tengan problemas...    

So after this short welcome message to Eduardo, I can pass to discuss the problem.

I also had many hesitations with resolution. I guess that another factor to consider is the target audience of your website. If your site is for people who deal with computer graphics, then you can increase your resolution to 1024x768 (oh, come on, even some 14inch monitors have this res.). I think it's time to raise the outdated standard. It will not happen if people still downsize to 800x600. It's the same as with monitors. Days ago there were basically only 14 inch monitors, some 2 years ago 15 inch monitors could be considered a standard, and now 17 inch monitors are massively used. I have never had any complaints from users with low resolutions, they just seem to understand that some things (like photos or graphics) cannot be presented at 800x600.

If your capable of it (and willing to spend the time) design your site to support 800x600 but at the same time, have it auto adjust to show right in a larger view.

If your using complex tables with what appears to be a continuos graphic, you will soon see how challenging this can be!

If you don't understand what I mean check out  this page that I am in the process of designing for someone. It has a slight problem with 800x600 (shows a scroll bar in some browsers but all the content is still viewable). Try expanding it on your monitor, you will see that it shows the same in all views as if someone regenerated teh graphics to fit.

If anything, most importantly.. try to make sure it doesn't always show up at 800x600 because if your running on a graphics workstation at 1200x 1600 that webpage will need magnification!  

Just my 2 cents!
- Ed      

You could put

code:

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<center>

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at the top of the page,

or you could make a big table, with one cell, with your whole website in it, and aligned centrally.