Background Dimensions?

[Rhab]

I designed my own background for my current profile at www.myspace.com/bngbattalion

It was kind of just trial and error in getting it aligned correctly. I used 1024x768 which I think is the general viewing res most people are on these days. I use 1280x1024 so I had to fool around with it to make it viewable in both resolutions that I was satisfied with.

I guess my question is when designing backgrounds for myspace, is 1024x768 the general size I should design for or is there a different size to use as a guideline?

[Greg-J]

That's a great profile.

If it's a background image like the one you have now, you'll want to center the background image horizontally and align it to the top vertically. I tend to make background images blend into the background color, so there's no blocky borders.

I vew at 1920x1200, so I'm not the best judge what screen resolution people use. But in my referrers on my myspace sites, I would say that most people use 1024x768 with 1280x1024 following behind.

[Rhab]

Thanks for the compliment greg and the reply! I'll use that alignment as my guide and work my designs around that along with making them blend and/or fade to avoid the block look you mentioned.

[mcfox]

Something worth bearing in mind when choosing the background size is that the resolutions are the maximum screen resolutions of the monitor - the actual viewable area is less once you allow for scrollbars, browser toolbars, etc.