Times they are a changin’ – yet again. I am involved in the communications for several friends who are running for Municipal office – Regional Councillors and Mayor. During the process of planning to get their message out, the obvious conversation about the affect of the Internet comes up. And despite the huge shifts that have happened in the past 4 years (since the last election) online, people (and candidates) still do not trust that they can reach the majority of their potential voters online. Despite knowing how effective the Internet is through programs like The Drum Platform™ and BFOUND™, my experience when having this conversation with many others in the past few years is never positive. Most people who have made up their mind that because their “Aunt Edna has never been on the Internet”, there must be a lot of Aunt Edna’s out there. So I looked up the facts. I went to Stats Canada and found THE number. In 2009 Stats Canada reports that 81% of Canadians have access to the Internet at home or at work.
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Brandon Gasner
Today we (designers) are faced with a reoccurring dilemma when designing websites, and that is “What resolution should we be designing for?” Before I answer this question with my personal opinion, and some data to back it up, I’d like to take a look back to 1996.
1996 was the year Photoshop 4.0 was released. It was also the year my father bought me my first PC equipped with a 15” CRT monitor. At the time most resolutions were set to 640×480, but mine was set to 800×600 because I wanted to use as much of my monitor as possible while designing. A few years later I purchased a 17” monitor and bumped my resolution up to 1280 x 1024 while most were catching up to the 800×600 setting.