Do you think that a widescreen monitor is good for website design?

Posted on January 6th, 2009 by in Uncategorized
Website Design
BLD asked:


I don’t like my new widescreen lcd monitor. It makes images look wide and its seems hard to work with for website design? Would a regular monitor be better?

  1. crazysnk18 said on January 9th, 2009 at 1:02 am

    It all depends on the resolution. If you have a widescreen monitor, you should reset the resolution. As far as one being better than the other, I would say no.

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  2. Simon T said on January 11th, 2009 at 4:17 am

    Make sure the desktop resolution matches the native resolution of the monitor.

    If you run non-wide images fullscreen then they will get stretched. however this is true for any image that doe not match the aspect ratio of your monitor. If you put an image of a 6 by 4 photo – 3:2 aspect ratio – on a 4:3 display then it is going to get stretched vertically.

    As for whether it is good for web-design, that is up to you and how you use it. Think on this though, a lot of people are getting widescreen monitors. Do you want your web pages to look good on those monitors or bad?

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  3. dush2450 said on January 11th, 2009 at 11:37 am

    If the wide screen monitor makes images look wider then normal, make sure your resolution of your computer is correct. You can do this by right clicking the desktop and going into properties. From there go to settings and change the resolution to: 1280×720, 1280×768, or 1280×800. Check each one of these, because different monitors can have different resolutions.

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  4. Vincent V said on January 13th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    Most likely there is a setting to change your monitor from skewing the image. I would check into this before going out to buy another monitor.

    Hope this answered your question.

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