I see many web designers who seem to think nobody is using 800 by 600. Ive done several polls and gathered statistics on resolution and it has hovered around 10% for quite some time. I suspect this is people who have old computers and are not business users. All they accomplish is lost visitors and possible sales.

You can check your website in different resolutions by right clicking your desktop and selecting Properties, then go into settings tab to change your resolution.

I would suggest making sure your website is viewable equally in 800 by 600 and 1024 by 768. This basically covers all screen resoultions.

It also shows that foothold Microsoft gained in browser wars is failing. No doubt they will once again gain ground next year with eagerly awaited new operating system codename longhorn.

The open source mozilla firefox is gaining ground, but i have noticed that this is mainly because of users who are big gamers on internet have switched to firefox. This is taken from statistics i did on one of my gaming sites which showed firefox on 65% and Internet explorer on 35%. It appears business users stay with Microsoft.

The message here to web designers is that web sites should be configured viewable in 3 major browsers which are Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. This can be achieved by running pages through a validator which can be found at http://www.w3schools.com