How wide do you design yours?

[Sic]

depends what i'm told to do. if you're designing an intranet, you can be pretty sure that designing for 1024x768 is safe, but when i'm designing for myself, i normally stick to 800x600 just because i prefer the way it looks (even in higher resolutions) and i often spend a bit of time on the background bit (dont click my sig link yet...it's a work in progress )

 

[punky_munky]

When IE7 becomes the standard for Windows users then I'll start using min and max width. For now I use a fixed size depending on demographics.

If the width is going to be 968px then I try and make sure all the important parts will fit on the screen and then have a less important column reachable by scrolling. As long as the content is readable without scrolling (or being too wide on a big monitor with stupid maximised windows) then it's good.

 

[zetec452]

I design for 800x600 unless it was a specific technology site whereby most of the website users would have bigger screens.

We have been selling 17" tft's now as standard for well over two years and 15" for 3-4 years. All which are set to above 800x600.

I tend not to design fluid websites as IMO they are a lot harder to look good under the differing resolutions.

 

[Phaser]

Normally go for 760px width.