Do you adjust the width of your website according to user's screen size?

[beggers]

Do you check the user's screen size and display a version of your site with a suitable width? If you just display one standard width page, what size is it?

I was looking at some big sites and they seem to have a lot of code that adjusts the site width. I'm not even sure how to design a dynamic-width site like that.

What are your thoughts about this?

[katherine]

You can just use a CSS-based liquid layout which will adjust to take 100% of available screen width. Basically you build the structure using DIV blocks, and set min-width and max-width properties for each block so as to keep the whole 'predictable'

[Acro]

The majority of Internet users have a 1024 pixels wide screen; to ensure greater compatibility design for 800 pixels wide - or define a "fluid" (100% width) layout.

[hyped]

You could make a fluid design, but if the users screen is extremely large or small, it might look stupid.

If i were you, I would target your site at people with screen resolutions of 1024x768 (Use a width of about 955px), or 800x600 (with a width of about 750px) if you care about people with really, really, shitty, outdated computers.

If you need free css layouts, you might try http://www.oswd.org/

[beggers]

Thanks everyone for the comments. I appreciate the info!

[Keyboard Cowboy]

It really depends on the niche your site belongs to.

If you have a more tech related site, chances are users are more tech savvy meaning they'll probably have better equipment (no homo) and therefore can handle larger resolutions. On the other hand, if your site is about ponies I'd make the site fit the 1024 resolution.

[Darren06]

I will be soon changing my site to alter to my user's screen size.

[jdk]

I design my sites to either be fluid or for the 1024 resolution. Maybe this will teach those running at 800x600 to upgrade