Designing websites for a living, you not only have to know how to design, code the mark-up, keep up on the latest technologies and languages but you also have to keep an eye on things such as browser share and screen resolutions. I was just over at Market Share by Net Applications to check up on screen resolutions. It would seem that designing for 800×600 can now be a thing of the past. According to their numbers, 1024×768 is the dominating resolution these days.

So what does all of this mean? Well for starters it means I need to do a bit more redesign for my site and blog. It also means it’s time to adjust the width of standard designs in the future. I for one will start out with a blank canvas set at 960px for fixed-width designs. Unless, of course, the design dictates that something narrower is called for. Plus as Cameron Moll states, it’s a great width for working with grids because it’s so easily divisible.