There are millions of computer users browsing the internet every day and each one is looking at a different size monitor using a different resolution. How each person sees the graphics on your website varies depending on their screen and there is no uniform standards for making your site friendly to everyone.
What is Resolution
Screen resolution refers to how many pixels your computer monitor will display, both vertically and horizontally. If you have ever visited a website that did not fit your screen, making you scroll to the right to see the rest of the page, it was not entirely the designer’s fault. The website was just not created with your screen resolution in mind.
Not too long ago, the most common computer monitors featured a resolution of 480 X 640. A number of people still surf the internet using this screen resolution, while today’s popular monitors use a 1024 X 768 screen resolution and most websites are optimized to be viewed on these higher resolution screens. Those still using lower resolution displays will see websites quite differently than those the site was designed for.
Today’s monitors offer computer users a...