Can you imagine not being able to view the products in a store because you were too small, too large, or just too average? Of course not. Why limit your website viewers based on their monitors? Monitors still come in a variety of sizes and capabilities. Websites need to be created to accommodate all of these differences. Many websites are being created for the latest, high-tech screen resolution size leaving only a portion viewable to a smaller screen size. Some websites are designed to fill the entire space on a very small screen leaving too much empty space when viewed on a larger, wider screen. Neither of these options are ideal.

I am currently taking a class dedicated to web design usability. It is only the second week of class and screen resolution is already being discussed in the textbook as a top design issue. A couple of years ago I created a web speech discussing the screen resolution size design debate. Decide for yourself.

View this web speech on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZZ9juLDZVI
Associated PowerPoint link download: http://contractcoomer.com/Presentations/screen_resolution_debate.ppt