What is the best resolution for Web?

This is the first thing to ask yourself during the design stage.

You create a new photoshop document and you are asked about the size in pixel.

800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1280x720, 1366x768, 1600x1200, 1920x1080, 1920x1200?

I always start with 1024x768 as my beginning resolution to design with.

Actually, my maximum width is just 1000 instead of 1024. The scroll bar on the right side of the browser takes up some space too. As more and more monitors are going toward 1920x1080, I may start the width with 1280x1024 in the future. It is not advisable to optimize your resolution with the max, 1920x1200, as monitors with lower resolutions will have trouble getting a good view of your web site.

After the design, I find ways to cut the design into two parts, left part and right part. The purpose is to make the web site to fit in any monitors that are higher than 1024x768.

This is a challenging job as cutting some area may not be as easy you think especially with designs with a lots of images.

Then I will make the website width 100% so that it will fit into most of the resolution in the market.

I don't like to fix the width as it only looks good with certain monitors of similar resolution with your design.

Making it 100% width is a very challenging task. It's hard to go over detail in this write-up. A lots of examples will need to be shown.

Hint: You need to use background="(image path)" to help you with this 100%-width task in some of the tables of your website.

I will elaborate more upon request.