Web pages are viewed on screens. Screen sizes can vary from several metres across down to a couple of mobile phone centimetres. Normal measurements won't work. You need pixels.
A common screen size is 1024 pixels wide. The really
Web pages are viewed on screens. Screen sizes can vary from several metres across down to a couple of mobile phone centimetres. Normal measurements won't work. You need pixels.
A common screen size is 1024 pixels wide. The really big screens just have bigger pixels and the smaller ones have smaller ones and the very small a lot less.
The smallest screen size these days is 800 pixels wide. Getting rarer but we still need to make pages that will look right on them. So we need some way to limit the width of a page to less than 800. Allowing for browser edges and scroll bars, pages really need to be less than 780 pixels wide. Except on very small screens, therefore, visitors will not have to scroll horizontally. That is regarded as poor design. Vertical scrolling, simple with modern mice, laptop panels and browser technology is acceptable, although it is a good idea to try and ensure that important content, especially navigation, is visible on a typical screen without any scrolling and there is a lot to be said for a home page that shows in its entirety.
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