Your Site on Other Computers!

In the newspaper world (and I am talking about the ‘old fashion’ kind that was printed and folded and tossed onto your driveway or porch), journalists wanted to get their story printed, “above the fold.” This refers to the top half of the newspaper. When the newspaper was folded in half, only the top half is visible on the newsstands. This way, everyone would see the article on the top!

If it was beneath the fold, no one would see it until the purchased the paper, opened it up, and then read the story.

This concept should be applied to your website! Not everyone has a monster 25 inch monitor that they use! Some folks visit your site on a small laptop. Others are somewhere in between. You should have an idea how your site is viewed on different sized screens (known as resolution).

While you want want to go out and have an excuse to purchase a monitor of every size, for most people, it is not feasible.

And because of that, webconfs.com comes to the rescue! Head over to http://www.webconfs.com/web-page-screen-resolution.php and you can select the resolution of various computer screen sizes.

The smaller the resolution, the smaller the screen. Here is a bit of a reference for you:

• The old Palm V has a screen resolution of 160×160.
• 800×600 resolution pretty much stopped back in 2007
• 1024×768 is what I am writing this post on! It is considered an old laptop by today’s standards, but it is not uncommon for folks to use this type of resolution.
• If you want more a more definite comparison of Resolution to Monitor size, click here.

You can see if any of your important info is located ‘below the fold’ and would require some visitors to scroll down to read it. Or, you can see if people have to scroll to the right and left to see the full screen.