Some very interesting facts emerge from the Web Page Design for Designers Survey . With well over five thousand responses so far, it shows that readers of this site are predominantly graphics designers, a disproportionate number of them use Macintosh computers and they prefer Netscape as their primary browser. However, general Web surfers tend to use Windows machines and recent figures show that Microsoft Internet Explorer has overtaken Netscape in the browser market. This is not an ideal solution. I'm not suggesting that people ditch their beloved Macs or their preferred browser but they mustn't ignore the fact that the majority of surfers who view their sites are seeing something completely different from what was intended.
People designing Web pages on a PC have a pretty good idea what their audience are going to see.
Only the very dedicated will even consider that there are people with Macintosh computers out there and put in that little extra effort to make sure that their pages look reasonable on a Mac screen also. Unless Mac designers are designing specifically for a Mac audience, they need to check what their pages look like on a PC too. By far, the most obvious difference between Mac and Windows Web page is the size of fonts. They might have a 20 inch monitor with their browser maximised to fill the screen. But still, the graphics stay their original pixel size.