What's your screen resolution?

[Buddy]

What size were you thinking of for the comicartsketchbook website?

I'm thinking of working around 1000x800ish

Most computers these days have bigger displays so I think there's no nee to stick to the 800x600.

Still I'm open to suggestions, can any webby tech person suggest what is acceptable for modern web pages?

[IndigoPrime]

:: can any webby tech person suggest what is acceptable
:: for modern web pages?

I already did. My comment above was the same thing I suggest when writing articles and books about web design.

1000px is, in my opinion, too wide. Browser chrome means you can never use the full dimensions of 1024 x 768, hence why I typically suggest 900?950px. As for height, avoid fixing that unless you have a very good reason for doing so. Because of all the shit toolbars people tend to add these days, you may end up with as little as 500?600px on a 1024 x 768 screen. Therefore, restrict the width of your design, but let the height be as large as it needs to be for each page.

[Max Kon]

1024x768.

[Buddy]

950 wide is sounding about right, with 100% height.

Cheers, I'll get started into that over the weekend.

[auxlen]

1024x768

[Bart Oliver]

++ 20% of users on 800*600 ++

That many?

Hmmm. Astraw poll today showed that about a quarter to a third of the group still use 56k dial up.

[The Amstor Computer]

1024 x 768.

[Dog Deever]

Ah dinna have a fuckin clue, manny!

[Funt Solo]

I still recommend to my students that they design their web-sites with the 800*600 resolution in mind - especially for commercial sites.  (You'll see that BBC, google, amazon and all the big name sites are viewable, width-wise, within those parameters.)

As Indigo says - height doesn't matter so much.

If it's a case of displaying large images, that's usually done as open on demand, in which case the user is free to click thumbnails in the knowledge that a big image is probably about to load up.

[IndigoPrime]

:: I still recommend to my students that they design their
:: web-sites with the 800*600 resolution in mind

I should clarify that this is what I usually aim for, too. However, I've been doing work for publishers lately, who have access to screen-res stats, and their viewers were 95%+ on 1024 x 768; therefore, it depends on the likely users. To cast the net widest, you need to aim for a 750px width, of course.

:: If it's a case of displaying large images, that's usually done
:: as open on demand, in which case the user is free to
:: click thumbnails in the knowledge that a big image is
:: probably about to load up.

Telling them what's going to happen is a good idea, obviously. Assumptions online are a bad thing. There are also useful alternatives to the pop-up for large images -- see http://www.snubcommunications.com/iceland/ and http://www.snubcommunications.com/popupgallery/