In designing sites, you'll have to play with this one a lot. Right now, the standard out there is design to 800x600. Not all of my sites fit that profile, since I am 1280x1024, but I try and keep the design close to about 700-800 px wide and perhaps static 600-700 px tall, though the width is more important since we can always scroll down.

By the way, speaking of monitors and such, I just bought the Huey Pro by Pantone to correct my monitor color. I noticed that the sites I was designing were showing up in all sorts of odd colors on different monitors, even with web safe colors, so I decided to invest in some color correction, so that I know what it should look like on a color corrected monitor. The unit works great and I would highly recommend it.

CharlesH.