webite mockup using photoshop

Question

Ive been asked to create a website mock-up using Photoshop, but I'm not sure what size to use for my canvas.

Please could you help me about that? or give me an advice?

Answer 1

This is a hard question as mostly websites are adaptive. From my experience I would say the height doesn't really matter if you allow scrolling, otherways I would take 700px for height. The width should be no more then 1200px.

Answer 2

I'd simply suggest to stick with some grid framework, eg. 960.gs: http://960.gs/ You'll get a PSD grid to fit your design into and also CSS framework which you can use later for website coding.

Answer 3

For a more up to date grid framework I suggest http://unsemantic.com/ since it allows for a responsive grid.