In addition to being familiar with page layout, you should also test your pages on several different machines. After creating a page, I test it under a 19 inch monitor running a high resolution using both Internet Explorer and Netscape, then also under other lower resolutions using the same monitor and a fast connection. After running it through some browser compatibility tests, I move to a 14 inch monitor under different resolutions and a 56k connection. I try and test for other Operating systems also as much as possible, such as MacOS, Linux, BeOS, WebTV, etc. In then end, very few visitors may actually be visiting your site running Linux for example, but it will look much more professional if your site looks good.

To get an idea of what this site looks like at different resolutions, click these links below.

1280x1024

1152x864

1024x768

800x600

Windowed image

Here is a screenshot of how your site should NOT look in windowed mode. I've found that a lot of people browse the web this way, and having them scroll left or right to see the rest of the page isn't a good idea. This site has millions of hits a month, and a good ranking on engines, but poor design. The name of the site has been blacked out ( as with the logo ), just to be fair.