How to deal with different screen resolutions in CSS?

Question

I am new to UI design- was wondering what the best way to deal with different screen resolutions is when positioning various HTML elements? I thought using %ages would be t

Answer 1

% is the correct way. If you start using Javascript to detect resolution and adjust design based on that your code is going to turn into tasty meat spaghetti very quickly.

Back in the day I was always told to design with a minimum resolution of 800x600, but nowadays I always go by 1024x768 as a minimum resolution.

Without more specifics about designs, we can't really help more I'm afraid!