Fixed table width VS dynamic

GoneShootin

Im working on an online shop, and I'm trying to decide on:

1) Design the site at 800 fixedwidth (for the helluva lot of people that still browse at 800*600)

2) Design the site for those of us (inc me) on 1024 but to be workable without horiztonal scrolling at 800 (just wont look at nice)

3) **** the 800*600 people and go all out 1024*768 goodness.

What are peoples experience in this area? One thing that I might consider is sticking to fixed 800 width, and the reason for this is that I'm using osCommerce, and it would seem to be to be a good idea to keep the left and right categorys closer together to make the page easy to scan, rathar than a larger gap of content in the middle section.

comments?

Gosh

http://webdesign.about.com/od/webdesign/a/aa123002a.htm

http://webdesign.about.com/od/webdesign/a/aa080904.htm

Apart from this make sure the site suits the MAJORITY of visitors - there is a link here that might help in establishing this

http://webdesign.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=webdesign&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.evolt.org%2Farticle%2FReal_World_Browser_Size_Stats_Part_I%2F17%2F2295%2Findex.html

GoneShootin

Hmm - interesting stuff there Gosh. I think I'll settle on fixed centered 800*600 for now. I'm not a fan of bn.com or sonyusa.com, all the space on the right hand side just sitting there doing nothing.