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Screen resolutions/image sizes for gallery websites

  • 13-06-2008 7:02am
    #1
    sineadw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,319 ✭✭✭


    Mods feel free to move this, I'll repost in the web design forum anyway, but I wanted feedback for photography sites specifically...

    As I said in the other thread I'm building a site at the moment. I'm keeping it simple - a sparse home page, small gallery, link to Myspace and email and maybe a link to a photoblog (if I ever get around to taking a picture again.. :( ). I'm working on some css templates at the moment and was wondering what sizes people keep in mind? I've recently stopped designing for 800x600 altogether, but as I also mentioned in the other post I'm buying myself a nifty little Eeepc in a bit and the res in the one I'm getting is 800x600... I've seen quite a few people with them recently. I for one plan on ditching the laptop altogether in favour of one, with a super-duper desktop for the heavy stuff (both will still cost me less than a decent spec laptop..).

    I'm now toying with the idea of expandable rather than fixed-width divs and an overlaid gallery window for the main images, keeping them 780 px or so wide at most. I'm wondering how people work around this issue? What size images do you use on your site? What screen resolutions do you keep in mind? How do you work the sizing issue?

    Any help greatly appreciated, as I'm now starting to dream in div widths... :rolleyes:


Comments

  • #2
    grainne.obrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 ✭grainne.obrien


    Hi,

    When designing web sites you really need to keep in mind all resolution sizes. One way would be to design the divs with percentage widths so that they fit all resolutions bar 800X600 without the user having to scroll across, coz thats just so annoying. It's some bit acceptable for users of 800X600 to scroll across, as it's hard to design for all sizes.

    Another option is to design for 800x600, so that it fills the screen and then on other resolutions center the page and the remainder of the page will act as a border.

    With regards to images sizes, I'm still working on the best size, but an idea would be to have thumbnails that are links to slide shows.

    Grainne


  • #3
    oshead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭oshead


    Hi Deirdre
    Below are the global stats for screen res from counter.com.

    Fri Feb 1 00:01:02 2008 - Sat May 31 23:58:00 2008 121.0 Days
    1024x768 (46%)
    1280x1024 (30%)
    Unknown (10%)
    800x600 (7%)
    1152x864 (3%)
    1600x1200 (0%)
    640x480 (0%)

    Hope this helps...

    Dave OS


  • #4
    sineadw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,319 ✭✭✭sineadw


    Yeah I know there are very few using the smaller res these days (thanks for the stats btw - didn't realise it was THAT low) but I'm wondering if that might rise with the advent of the mini-laptop? Was just wondering if anyone bothered designing for the smaller sizes anymore.

    Also still wondering what size people use for their images...


  • #5
    oshead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭oshead


    It's not an easy question to answer. I guess you have to try and consider your demographic of potential viewers. Do you expect the majority of traffic to your site are other photographers? If so, screen res I expect would be very large. If you are selling images to the general public maybe you should plan for smaller screen size.

    Maybe you could look at as many other sites similar to the one your planning. Change your screen res a few times to see how they look. Most likely the popular ones look well at all the major sizes.

    One other point. Larger images mean longer download times. I don't know how many gallery sites I've gone to, just to be frustrated by slow loading times.

    Dave OS


  • #6
    kjt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,057 ✭✭✭kjt


    As I said in your other thread I don't bother designing for 800x600 anymore. What I would do is make sure the menu and main bulk of the site will show for the resolution but 150/200pixles on the right could be cut off.

    Here is a good link that will give you an idea of what res web designers are using. Also Gavin Doolan put together this report. Stats & Image from that report:

    screen-resolutions-ireland.gif
    1. 1024×768 41.60%
    2. 1280×800 25.40%
    3. 1280×1024 13.40%
    4. 1440×900 5.40%
    5. 800×600 3.30%
    6. Rest 10.50%

    Personally I run my desktop on 1280x768 on a 24" widescreen and my laptops 17" on 1400x1050px. I wouldn't design a site under 960px unless specifically stated for by a client.


    Kyle


    Edit - I'm working on my own photography website at the moment too and am leaning towards keeping the large images at 800pixels on the largest side.


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