[Sigia-l] Display Size

[Roger Zender]

Apologies if this has been discussed recently, but I'm working on a  
redesign of our Library's website.  The problem is the university's  
template currently only allows for 800x600 resolution.  I'm hoping to  
break the trend because in all of our focus groups for the redesign,  
everyone stated they DID NOT like scrolling.  Also, virtually every  
other library website we looked at was not bound by that width.

With this redesign we're hoping to get more information on our page,  
in a more usable layout than that resolution allows.  So I'm hoping  
to make a business case for this purpose, to present to the  
University's marketing department.

I'm curious of your thoughts on what resolution we should be  
designing for.  I know the "know your audience" idea, and being on a  
college campus I think allows us a greater resolution than the  
current template provides.  I'm hoping for some other (equally  
substantial) reasons as to why going 1024x768 is better.  Any  
thoughts, or references supporting this?

Thanks,
Roger