I've been thinking about turning my site over to fixed width, while I understand that 760px is probably the safest option to go with for people who use 800 screen resolutions in there settings. And to just support everybody in general.
I've been doing quite a bit of reading on the Internet about this first, were people are beginning to talk about moving away from the supported 800 screen res, too 1024 screen res now as the default. It seems to be a hot topic though with arguements on both sides, people who support 800 screen res say you can lose about 30% of traffic if you rule out 800 screen res in your fixed width, and opt for a standard 1024 instead. Were other say 800 screen res is just too old now and all new computer support higher than this as standard. And it's only a matter of time before 800 screen res is more or less obsolete. So whats the point of supporting it anymore in new designs.
Not only that, my feeling are the 760px fixed width for vBulletin to support 800 screen res is a little too narrow, if you enable things like the moderator column on the forum, or use things like display post as "Detailed". or enable quite a lot of features to be displayed in the members section. You kind of struggle really with the 760px fixed width. And it just seems the 960px fixed width is better suited overal now for the vB forum settings as a whole. But of course as mentioned above, your ruling out a people who use 800 screen res. Plus with the new Blog in production now, when viewed in vBulletin 760 fixed width style. It all looks a little too cramped to me.
Whats people view on this?
I've been doing quite a bit of reading on the Internet about this first, were people are beginning to talk about moving away from the supported 800 screen res, too 1024 screen res now as the default. It seems to be a hot topic though with arguements on both sides, people who support 800 screen res say you can lose about 30% of traffic if you rule out 800 screen res in your fixed width, and opt for a standard 1024 instead. Were other say 800 screen res is just too old now and all new computer support higher than this as standard. And it's only a matter of time before 800 screen res is more or less obsolete. So whats the point of supporting it anymore in new designs.
Not only that, my feeling are the 760px fixed width for vBulletin to support 800 screen res is a little too narrow, if you enable things like the moderator column on the forum, or use things like display post as "Detailed". or enable quite a lot of features to be displayed in the members section. You kind of struggle really with the 760px fixed width. And it just seems the 960px fixed width is better suited overal now for the vB forum settings as a whole. But of course as mentioned above, your ruling out a people who use 800 screen res. Plus with the new Blog in production now, when viewed in vBulletin 760 fixed width style. It all looks a little too cramped to me.
Whats people view on this?
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