[paully dub]

When I was learning html, and web design, way back when, the standard web page dimensions were 720 x 420 pixels. This was for pages with no scroll on almost every browser with a screen resolution of 800 x 600 and up.

But what are the standards these days, for which minimum resoltions should I be shooting for? I'm still talking about sites with as wide a target audience as possible.

[Macola]

Design a site so that it works independent of screen resolution, and you won't have to worry about it

[madmacgames]

I'm not sure how they calculate the stats, but http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp reports that as of january 2004, 37% of users still run 800x600.

personally, If I am doing a fixed width site, I set it to 778px wide. If it is a fluid width, then I try to make sure it is manageable in 800x600.

My parents run 800x600, and not because their monitor cannot do higher. It's because the monitor sits kinda far away up on a little monitor stand in the back corner of a corner desk, that it can be difficult to read at anything higher than 800x600.

[Millennium]

Design your site to not rely on things like browser resolution, and there will never be a need to worry.

[Oisín]

How come in those stats from w3schools claim that 5% of all internet users in January of 2004 had a screen resolution lower than 640x480???

Are they talking about cellphones and PDA's, etc.? Do they really account for 5% of all browsing?