What screen resolution do you use?

49% 1024x768
39% 800x600
7% 1280x1024
5% others

don't know how repesentative this is though

At work I can't get larger than 1024 x 768, I rememember when I used to think this was a huge screen size now it looks cumbersome.

Ken, yeah I know what yer saying but for thumbnails and perhaps other image tags it's difficult to know just how small or large to set them.

OTM

and why does blogger insist on using templates that set fonts with 'px' instead of 'pts' making text resizing redundant?

1280x960 at home (odd one i know)

Firefox font size prefs over-ride font size specifications in CSS tho don't they? Designers like to set specific font size as a recommendation and to make their job 'easier' and the site neater. But yeah the site should always be able to handle font-size over-riding without images being thrown out of shape or blank gaps appearing where repeating backgrounds should be.

not only ugly but harder to read - you have more trouble finding the start of the next line if you're coming back to it from a greater distance, which is the reason newspapers have columns only an inch and a half wide (although it's relative to font size / line spacing).

JW otm about not having browser window maximised. i have the firefox bookmark toolbar open on the left hand side all the time so that eats into window space (so all those things that try and resize my browser to fit their content are doomed to fail - bbc listen-again thing j'accuse)

i think the way forward is actually a step backwards - stop putting all the text in tiny boxes that you feel you need to specify to the nearest pixel because the moment someone decides to increase the font size, use a different font or, a browser other than IE6 (lynx!) or, gasp, a different operating system completely, it's just going to break. plain text is the way to go. html was not designed for typesetting. 8)

Also... You know me! You know I don't wear glasses! I use 1280x1024 normally, but this laptop's native is the 1920 setting.

What's nicest is high res, but adjusting the monitor settings such that fonts display larger, so it's readable but also nice and high res. I expect the next version of Windows will probably cater for this better than it does now.

Yes, I do this: on the left-hand side of the browser window I have the bookmarks pane, and on the right-hand side I have my tabs. Further right, still, outside the browser window itself, I have a system monitor.

Everyone at work here who has a TFT screen (about 3/4 of the workforce) has a 17" one that can do 1280px. About half of them then set the resolution to 800x600, which looks *horribly* blurry. If it was me, I'd find the blurriness much worse to deal with than the small text size.

If you have an 17" LCD which is 5:4 it's not a problem, on a 19" CRT your circles wont be circles at 1280x1024.

800x600 is, IMO, the only resolution to design for.

The other people I work w/ seem to be set @ 800x600, though, which is jarring when I go from my monitor to theirs - it's like switching to a Big Print book. Of course, everyone that looks @ my monitor squints & complains.

Everybody who uses a CRT Monitor, for the sake of your eyes and and brain, please make sure your refresh rate is at least 75 Hertz. This will save your eyesight and end your headaches and will make you happier and more productive. This is like the only miracle cure for anything. You can thank me later.

I run 1280x1024, True Color, 85 Hertz on both my 19" at work and 21" at home (though sometimes I switch to 1600x1200 if I'm working on my art at home).

1280X1024 on PC
1024x768 (or whatever it is) on Laptop

heh. there is no "average," sites will need to look good on 800 x 600 for years to come. and hopefully it will look good on a phone, too.

2560x1440 + 1440x900 boo yah

i can see forever

1920 x 1200 left, 1920 x 1080 right