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How Big is Too Big?
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Very Cool Joe!
Part of the problem is that so many people have 5 different tool bars going. I was amazed when I would go to a dealership to work with reps on CRM and the actual content would start halfway down the screen. So I would have to show them how to right click on the browser tools and remove them. Would also have to teach them how to make the screen bigger using the F11 key.
Part of the problem is that so many people have 5 different tool bars going. I was amazed when I would go to a dealership to work with reps on CRM and the actual content would start halfway down the screen. So I would have to show them how to right click on the browser tools and remove them. Would also have to teach them how to make the screen bigger using the F11 key.
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The idea is to make sure our web page size fits most folks screens.
There are 2 dimensions to take note. NORTH - SOUTH and EAST - WEST
EAST - WEST
This is width of the page and is marked by the Vertical line on the right. Back in the day (before flat panels got cheap), monitor sizes varied greatly, you needed to make the site far narrower back then. These days, the East-West size is not a real design limitation. If you have a center justifyed site, slowly shrink the size of the browser until it contains the nothing but the page itself (not the background).
NORTH - SOUTH
This is the money maker (or money killer!) This is the horizontal line on the overlay. Any Content on your page that is below this line is not seen by the majority of shoppers and needs to be scrolled down to see it. This line has a knick name from the newspaper biz, it's called "the fold".
The reality is that most folks dont scroll down the page unless they land on a page that really hits them... then, they scroll lower. Additionally, repeat visitors will scroll down more often that 1st time visitors.
So, what's below your fold?
Are your lead generating tools below the horizontal line? Are your pics below the fold? Ohoh. not good. Yes, your right, not everything can be :above the fold". Does your page invite the viewer want to scroll down and discover more content?
UsedCarKing.com is far from perfect, but it was built to fit as much of the good stuff "above the fold" as possible, and leave the "below the fold" content for folks who want to be on the page a while.
There are 2 dimensions to take note. NORTH - SOUTH and EAST - WEST
EAST - WEST
This is width of the page and is marked by the Vertical line on the right. Back in the day (before flat panels got cheap), monitor sizes varied greatly, you needed to make the site far narrower back then. These days, the East-West size is not a real design limitation. If you have a center justifyed site, slowly shrink the size of the browser until it contains the nothing but the page itself (not the background).
NORTH - SOUTH
This is the money maker (or money killer!) This is the horizontal line on the overlay. Any Content on your page that is below this line is not seen by the majority of shoppers and needs to be scrolled down to see it. This line has a knick name from the newspaper biz, it's called "the fold".
The reality is that most folks dont scroll down the page unless they land on a page that really hits them... then, they scroll lower. Additionally, repeat visitors will scroll down more often that 1st time visitors.
So, what's below your fold?
Are your lead generating tools below the horizontal line? Are your pics below the fold? Ohoh. not good. Yes, your right, not everything can be :above the fold". Does your page invite the viewer want to scroll down and discover more content?
UsedCarKing.com is far from perfect, but it was built to fit as much of the good stuff "above the fold" as possible, and leave the "below the fold" content for folks who want to be on the page a while.
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Nice to know I'm in the top 9% or less.....or would that be the bottom 9% or less? Big monitors FTW!
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Just checked my web stats - looks like most of the folks that visit my site use 1024 x 768.
Nice find Joe! Looks like I have some work to do.
Nice find Joe! Looks like I have some work to do.
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I was talking about myself here. Not our visitors. Most of ours are viewing on a resolution above 1280xXXXX and we have a very high percentage of very high resolutions compared to what Google is saying.
But the relevance is not in scaling down your homepage to fit a 50x50 resolution, it is in making your most important thing show for 90+% of the people coming to your site. It needs to be one of the first things that load too.
Would that thing be inventory? A Credit App? Specials? Service? You'll have to decide that yourself.
