Good screen width for all users?

[SSJpn]

I want to know what a good table width is for my webpages so that a majority of viewers can view the page without having to scroll horizontally. I thought that if the table was 800px wide that everyone could see it since the smallest screen resolution is 800x600. But when i put my screen to this resoultion and view my webpage, my webpage is about 1 inch too wide. Why is this?

For any size monitor, 15" 17" 19" etc if the user has their screen resolution to 800x600 does that mean all the screens show 800px wide and 600px long?

Thanks!

 

[deecee]

best bet would be to design using "%"

also this topic is overkill use the forum search to find past threads on this (there are probably over 1 million!) [Hammer]
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[meriwether]

i usually go for a range of 730-770px in width. % not bad if you want to use up all the available real estate.

here's descent article on browser sizing:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/41/index3a_page2.html?tw=design

even had some photoshop files you can download and use as templates to see the variances between diff. browsers on diff. os'.

hth.