SCREEN SIZES
WHO SAYS SIZE DOESN'T MATTER?

DISPLAY DEVICES
Display devices such as monitors and television sets are built to meet different specifications for size and display standards. Most monitors can be adjusted to display a certain number of pixels (tiny colored dots) on the screen. Just because you have a 17-inch monitor, doesn’t mean your display presents a set number of pixels. The diagram below shows the most common display settings as measured in pixels.

TEST YOUR DISPLAY
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DESIGNING FOR THE SIZE-SHIFTING PAGE
Sites must be designed to lay out correctly on all display devices. Putting the issues of interaction, animation, and audio-video content aside, just laying out a simple paragraph can require a lot of thought. One user with a 640 x 480 screen sees

this:

While another user with an 1152 x 864 screen can be viewing the same web page, and depending on the HTML formatting and layout, can see:

this:	this:	this:	or this:

When you add in factors such as animation, color issues, type issues, and download time, the complexity of these projects grows exponentially. Every detail of a professionally designed web site must be planned out in advance. Simple laws of size and proportion become technology issues. We have over 6 years of experience designing specifically for the web. We sweat the details so you don’t have to.