Because this website focuses on WordPress, I tend to spend a lot of time highlighting various WordPress themes and plugins. One trend I’ve noticed is that a lot of theme developers will often waste a lot of valuable screen real estate by keeping their themes width under 800px. Is this really necessary anymore? Do people still use the 800 x 600 resolution?
Limiting yourself to a 800px or less wastes a lot of valuable real estate that in my opinion could be used to widen your sidebar, give you more room in your menu (which helps keep things above the fold), or allow you to better blend advertisements into your blog posts. When I set up a new site for someone and start theme shopping, I don’t even consider using these themes as it would take to long to adjust to a comfortable width.
So that is my pet peeve with theme authors. Its not the 80′s or 90′s anymore, so make your themes modern if you want people to use them.
What is something you watch out for when selecting a theme to use?
Kyle Eslick
Kyle Eslick is WordPress enthusiast who took his passion for WordPress to the next level back in 2007 by launching WPHacks.com as a place to share hacks and review WordPress-related products.
Thanks a lot, this made things much clearer for me :) 
I also use slimstat which is great and you don't have to leave your dash to check your metrics. 
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