Best website width?

[Hell Bomb]

Ok, I have been doing some searching around and thought i might as well ask you guys before i made a decision. What do you guys think is the best width for a gaming forum? I don't wanna go any less then 800px i wanna shoot for 950px but I am not sure. Using 950px will allow users to view all the content when using 1024x786 resolution but they cant see the border of the site. So what you guys think I should do?

[Trip]

I would think setting up a theme for a min of 1024x768 you wouldn't have any worries. Anybody still surfing in 800x600 will be use to the side scroll bar and it wouldn't turn those people off to your site.

[Hell Bomb]

Originally Posted by Trip

I would think setting up a theme for a min of 1024x768 you wouldn't have any worries. Anybody still surfing in 800x600 will be use to the side scroll bar and it wouldn't turn those people off to your site.

Yea I did quite a bit of research and got opinions for 3 different sites and everyone is saying about 900. Its weird, I have been designing forum themes for a couple years now and always have used either 800 or 850 for width. With this new theme i needed something wider because of the amount of content that is being displayed.

I could see in the future browsers creating virtual resolutions so that the browsers will ignore the users desktop resolution and they can use their own resolution that only effects their browsers. That would be nice because everyone would be using the same resolutions. I hope that something along these lines will be implemented. It would save us developers so much heart ache. Of course i honestly believe that Firefox should be the only browser in the world. Developing these skins to work in all browsers suck!