Canvas size

[doyle369]

i was just wondering, when designing a website in photoshop wat size canvas to work on?

 

[adamblan]

It depends on the screen resolution you're optimizing the site for, - I use a lot of liquid layouts so I tend to go big in PS (1600x1200) then slice/name the images I'll be using to fit the site...

 

[jnjc]

If you are going for a fixed width you are probably looking at two choices. The lowest resolution that most sites support is 800 X 600, 99.9% of the time this is the lowest res that you will encounter. To support this your canvas should be about 760px wide.

lately there is a bit of a trend moving away from this towards supporting a minimum of 1024 X 768, this is because the 800 X 600 is becoming rare (it accounts for about 2% of the visits to one of my sites). If you are going to have this are you minimum then a width of about 960px is where you want to be.


HTH,
JC