: As others have said, there is no standard to this type of thing. Although, here are a few tips that will either make or brake your website: I've always used either percentages or a worst-case-scenario

@Rivera981

As others have said, there is no standard to this type of thing. Although, here are a few tips that will either make or brake your website:

I've always used either percentages or a worst-case-scenario build: smallest screen resolution that you're going to commonly come across is 800x600, and even that is rare. Anything below that is probably on a mobile device. 775px width is a good medium to use, or simply 80% if you know for a fact your website will still have appeal when it is scaled out to a larger screen. Most common problems is that the text content (When scaled out to 1600px widths) seems empty and short. Having your website to 775px width will fix that, however it might not look good with massive open space on either side.

NEVER make your users scroll to the left or right. Cutting off content of the sides is the quickest way to lose potential customers or readers.

Have your navigation somewhere near the top or in a place to where users don't need to scroll to find it.

And just a content tip; either have high graphics/low information or high information/low graphics. Trying to combine both of them always looks terrible.

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