Criteria Explanation
A11. Resolution Requirements

Careful planning is required when you design a website. One of the most difficult things to do is to make your design work well under different screen resolutions. The majority of your visitors still use 800x600 as their primary screen resolution, but 1024x768 is becoming increasingly more common.

Your website must be fully viewable in both these resolutions to score this point. If you see a lateral scrollbar in either of the aforesaid resolutions, your website does not support the screen resolutions. To solve use "percentage" values rather than "fixed" values when specifying table / cell size. Example:

  • Fixed Value for Table:     <TD WIDTH="760"> (760 is the value in pixels - table will be static and will not resize. Low resolution screens may have horizontal scrollbars)
  • Percentage Value for Table: <TD WIDTH="100%> (100% is the percentage value, tables will resize depending your screen resolution)