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Originally Posted by wheelybird
This seems a bit callous. What if one of the people that was turned away from your site was a potentially large client that you've lost because he happens to use some unexpected resolution to browse at. And then you're also assuming that people access your site with their browser maximised.
Reasoning like this will also get you to create websites entirely in Flash, because most people have Flash installed, or code sites that only work in IE.
It makes more sense to develop sites that will be viewable in any resolution on any platform. It encourages good coding and design principles, and will save a lot of hassle when Microsoft release yet another version of their browser that's not backwards-compatible with their proprietary standards.
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Maybe so, but if my target market is 20-25 year old young males who play games online all of the time using their £3,000 gaming rigs that run their games in a native resolution of 1900 * 1200 with everything turned on I can pretty much assume that a 1280 * 768 site is not going to cause any isues. Do I care if a couple of grannies with a 640 * 480 resolutions come along? No because they are not going to use the site anyway.
As I stated before it is about knowing your target market and what they are going to be using. It would be very unusual for a big player in your target market to not be using the same sort of specs as everybody else so the chances of you loosing out on that big sell are virtually non-existent.
If your target market is everyone and their dog then you need to make your site usable on smaller resolutions.
As for mobile browsing, I would personally suggest you have a site specifically designed for the mobile market, a lot of site that are written or 800 * 600 still don't render properly in mobile browsers, if you are going to support them do it properly.
I'm not suggesting you make Flash sites (ack) or only IE sites (euurrggh) but is it really a big issue for somebody to maximise their browser? It only takes one click and would not prevent me from looking at a site I cam across.