Which monitor resolution and aspect ratio do you recommend

[RobC]

I'm somewhat behind the curve on this as I still use a 1280x1024 monitor but it seems that nowadays most people are using widescreen monitors of 16:9 aspect ratio or thereabouts.

I've been working on a site(not finished) for a friend and have utilised a 2:1 apect ratio for their project images which I think works quite well but I'm still not sure whether 3:2 would have been better for modern monitors. Dead Link Removed

So I'm just wondering what everyones opinion is as to the best target screen resolution and aspect ratio when designing their own own website for marketing/showing their work to the masses.

So I've put up a little poll to see if there is a consensus or whether its each to his own.

Question is:

Which monitor size / aspect ratio do you consider optimal to target your website design at ?

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

It's better to use dynamic design that adjusts to whatever screen resolution people use. See Squarespace, for example; they use this technology and their sites look great on any screen resolution.

 

[RobC]

Yes I know but you can't change the aspect ratio of an image on the fly without cropping it and that means relative layout changes according to monitor size / aspect ratio. Hence question.

 

[RobC]

I screwed up with the poll options, the second 1600x900 should have been 1920x1080

 

[Trail Images]

1920X1200.......just installed my new ASUS unit the other day.

 

[Bob Carnie]

1920 x 1200 as well

1920X1200.......just installed my new ASUS unit the other day.

 

[snapguy]

recommend?

I don't recommend anything in particular because I do not know what you are talking about. I have no idea what a "website desi" is -- is that anything like Desi Arnez, the "I love Lucy" guy whom I photographed many times with my film Nikon F? I thought this was APUG not PhotoSlop Heaven or Mindless Selfie Snapper Digital Wonderland.

 

[RobC]

I don't recommend anything in particular because I do not know what you are talking about. I have no idea what a "website desi" is -- is that anything like Desi Arnez, the "I love Lucy" guy whom I photographed many times with my film Nikon F? I thought this was APUG not PhotoSlop Heaven or Mindless Selfie Snapper Digital Wonderland.

use your imagination if you can find it...

 

[Alan Klein]

1920x1200 NEC Multisync.

 

[MattKing]

I screwed up with the poll options, the second 1600x900 should have been 1920x1080

So I ticked that option!

And I really dislike it, compared to the older, more square options.

Because I mostly work with text.

 

[RobC]

So I ticked that option!

And I really dislike it, compared to the older, more square options.

Because I mostly work with text.

Me too. Browsers work best with scrolling but monitors are now designed more for watching video rather than scrolling through text documents. There is a disconnect between the two IMO.

However, images with aspect ratio of 2:1 do look really good on the highend 16:9 monitors with pixel dimensions of 1920x1080 and up.
But only providing you make your image files big enough which is pain for bandwidth considerations where people are on slower connections.

 

[ajmiller]

1920x1080 here also - and preferred the square as well..

So I ticked that option!

And I really dislike it, compared to the older, more square options.

Because I mostly work with text.

 

[ME Super]

At work we have to design our website to look good on everything from a tiny iPhone screen to a massive 1920x1080 screen. The Bootstrap framework is very helpful for making this happen. Between the media queries supported in CSS3 and the javascript component of it, you can pretty much design your website to look good and be functional on iPhones through the various tablets/iPads all the way up to a multimedia PC hooked up to a big screen TV.

 

[cliveh]

Is this a question for APUG or DPUG?

 

[ME Super]

If you're marketing or presenting analog photos on the web, then IMHO this topic is perfectly legit on APUG. It has nothing to do with digital photography or the dreaded sc*nning.

But that's just IMHO.

 

[RobC]

If you're marketing or presenting analog photos on the web, then IMHO this topic is perfectly legit on APUG. It has nothing to do with digital photography or the dreaded sc*nning.

But that's just IMHO.

Yes that's why I put it here. But with nearly 200 views and only 8 votes, I suspect most people aren't interested in the question or answer.

 

[trythis]

Your question would be better answered in a web design site like stackexchange. I'm not sure of the exact name of the website but there are people there that can help you with your code to make sites work with all different size monitors


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