How People Look at Your Page Print this information out before you begin. Your desktop is the viewable area you see in your monitor. What you are to see on your monitor depends on what resolution you have set on your computer.
Resolution refers to the sharpness and clarity of an image.
When you hear that a resolution is 640x480 it means that the resolution is 640 pixels wide x 480 pixels high. Most of the computers sold are set at a 640x480 resolution. Most people do not change this setting because they do not know how. Settings begin at 640x480 and can go up to 1280x1024. Because your audience will be viewing your pages in different resolutions.