I use 800x600. Unfortunately, Strip Creator comics are just large enough that they don't fit inside that. If I fiddle with the scroll bars I can usually get the whole comic inside the window, but by the time I finish I've already read the whole strip anyway.

I used to use 640x480, because it was the default and I didn't really have any problem with it. I changed because all the screens at work were 800x600, and I got to like it.

I probably should go up at least one more notch, but I'm reluctant to because I also assume that 800x600 is the most commonly-used resolution, and since I spend a lot of time writing web pages, I want to be able to see them the way most of my audience sees them. I see a lot of pages whose designers obviously don't ever consider the reality that different people use different resolutions, and it ticks me off. So I try to avoid that.

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I use 1024x 768 res. It's legible, unobtrusive, I've never seen a page that didn't fit into it. And I hate all of those angry fruit salad HTML designs jumping out at me at 800x600 that are on the commercial pages I have to use for business.

bunner

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

I'm at 1280x1024 and if I could get it any bigger I would. The more apps I can fit on the screen, the better.

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Yeah, the web page design thing is a pain. What I did was this... Went into a graphics program and made a big black rectangular jpeg. Then I opened it in both Netscape and IE with the screens maximized and the normal set of toolbars. Then I started resizing the rectangle slowly until it just fit into both the windows with a little bit of the background color showing through.

Now when I'm designing I don't need to switch resolutions to check. I just have a browser window that isn't maximized, and just shows the majority of my rectangle. And I design for that.

Hence on my system there's an assload of white space on my pages. But it looks fine at 800 x 600.

I agree with Johnny, though. The more crap I can fit onscreen the better. Doesn't W98 have support for mulitple monitors? Just get another graphics card and set them up next to each other and double your screen space.

That'd be sweet.

G

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[quote]I agree with Johnny, though. The more crap I can fit onscreen the better. Doesn't W98 have support for mulitple monitors? Just get another graphics card and set them up next to each other and double your screen space.

That'd be sweet.[/quote]It'd be sweeter if it worked well. It's fine as long as you don't start running games -- then things start to crash and it's a horrible nightmare.

I used to use Litestep, a shell replacement for Windows, which had a really great virtual desktop app, but I gave it up in favor of having a working desktop. I haven't found a decent virtual desktop utility for Windows though.

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I found an NEC 21" viewable monitor used for $350.00 that I'm picking up in a couple of weeks. I always use NEC monitors because the res and the daylight gamma correction is accurate, and they're cheaper than Trinitron. No more Mr. Squinty Bunny for me. :o)

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Okay, assuming that I'm much older and more brain dead than the lot of you, I felt I was being outwitted with my paltry 800x600 res so I changed it to 1024x768.

I was quite amazed at my grasp for learning Braille in such a short time, and even more amazed that my seeing eye dog Vizzini can type almost faster than I can dictate. I knew my mom's "if all your friends changed their screen resolutions, would you?" curse would eventually catch up with me.

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Women are fisher's of men because we all know.... The small ones you throw back. The medium ones you eat. The large ones you mount.

I run my 17" monitor at 1280 x 1024 (24 bit colour). The sad thing is the real reason I do this - my monitor is buggered, and at 1024 x 768 it goes all wonky.

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Hey, Jael, all your friends are sending me naked pictures of themselves. You don't want to be the outcast, do you?

[[[Mental Note- Take "Tom Arnold's Tricks to getting Women" back to the Library. You could write your own book. Stud.]]]

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

[quote]I was quite amazed at my grasp for learning Braille in such a short time, and even more amazed that my seeing eye dog Vizzini can type almost faster than I can dictate.
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Vizzini?

G

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

Hey, ObiJo, all your friends are participating in to-the-death cage matches with the Red Robot. You don't want to be the outcast, do you?

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

No whining billings. I saw her first.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.