What is the size of a website suppose to be?

Question

That makes no sense but...
I am making a site and what is the average size of the template. Like how many pixels by pixels?


If you can understand what I am saying thanks :)

Answer 1

I would say your template should be viewable in as low of a resolution as a 800x600 if you are going to be viewing this on a computer.



If mobile devices will be visiting your site and in general you should try to allow the content to shrink or expand depending on the browser window size.



If you use CSS, you may try and set both "max-width: 1024px" and

"width: 100%" on the outermost DIV.

Answer 2

The average monitor display 72 pixels per inch, monitor ratio is entirely different...



The old standard was 4:3, the almost square 800x600 in 1994, and 1999 reached the dizzying 1024x768 pixel display. The next standard was 16:10 ratio the almost widescreen because LCD were very expensive TV choose 1600x900 and computers were 1440x900. The new ratio is 16:9, with 1920x1080 pixels but the newer 25 inch and larger diagonal screens have more pixels.



Then there are the laptop/Netbook/Notebook screens that only offer1280 pixels widths...



If you try to standardize a fix width of 1024, remember all web browsers have a scrollbar, and boarders that shrinks the available space to about 980 pixels...



Then you may want to make a flexible width this allows you to design pages that focus more on your customers browser width... To create flexible width pages, simply use percentages or ems for the width of your page divisions...



There are few still using 800x600 screens but it is not 1999 any longer. I would suggest using 1024x768, so a minimum width would be 980. Yet you could go out on a limb and build for the 1280 width that is fast becoming the new web size....



Maybe use flexible widths centering your main content using a text width of 650/750 pixels...



JR

Answer 3

With simple pages the browser just fits it into whatever screen size you have. This means that the pages themselves don't really have a size and are more or less universal.



However, the template you're using might specify the size of page elements by pixels which might force the page to be at least a certain size or else or else not be displayed correctly. For example, this is why yahoo mail does not work for some smaller screen resolutions.



Test your page out on a few different settings and computers to see how it will be affected.

Answer 4

If you mean 'how many pixels should the main container (where your content will reside) be'...many sites are around 750 - 800, but others are 960 and above. I guess it all depends on what your site is and will do. Think about how wide your widest page will be and then mock it up in something like Photoshop...then see how large that area will need to be.



Of course, if I misunderstood your question, my answer won't be of much help.

Answer 5

Consider your visitor's needs. How big is their monitor likely to be? Most people these days have monitors that are capable of resolutions of about 1000 pixels wide or more. But if you expect a lot of visitors using iPhones, you may want a smaller dimension like 640 pixels.

Answer 6

I make all of my website templates 1000px wide because an average screen is 1000px