What I like about your layout is that the content itself grabs my attention from the start. Your sidebars etc aren’t the most attention-grabbing but I’m sure you’ll be able to figure that out. I do find a little difficulty in commenting tho’, but not over usability, but the content – I am still feeling my way through blogging, SEO etc so I often get the “better not make myself look stupid” feeling when I think of saying something on blogs like yours, Marty’s and Andy Beard’s. I was even worried about my post about PR. So in short, it’s just me.

I have the same opinions about getting out to interact more. After my first month, I realise I’m spending more time on blogs I frequent – I have unwittingly reduced my reach to other new bloggers, so have to pick it up again. I ditched the reaching out to A-listers strategy – they often don’t have the time of day, and it’s more fun and satisfying with the wider community elsewhere.

I agree I think its on the wane. That said, yes I have friends who view in all sorts of ghastly resolutions, even though they have top of the range monitors, there still is a lot of ignorance on some of this stuff.Lots of people just don’t do tech too well!

My mindset was the same as yours. I was really surprised by the stats because we all know that 800×600 is common, right? Not any more it seems… Maybe 800×600 is dead.

Having said that, with blogs like ours, most of our readers are other bloggers and I suspect they may have bigger monitors than Joe Public. For non blog sites, the figures for 800×600 may be higher. But I’d still have to say it’s on the way out.

Its funny, but some time back when Flash was all the rage, I thought to myself, wow a one size fits all tool…and then reality set in