Typical screen areas for common monitor sizes
Popular and widely supported web fonts
If you’re creating webpages for the general public, a good rule of thumb is to limit your main content pages to around 200K in size. HTML and CSS files typically weigh in at around 1 to 3K, so that leaves the vast majority of the total for other content such as graphics.
In fact, only 216 colors will display uniformly across all Mac and Windows systems (but even those colors can be affected by lighting and gamma issues). Those 216 colors are commonly referred to as “web-safe” colors.
Eye-tracking research
The above example is from a website's "About Us" pages. The heatmap clearly shows users' tendency to read in an "F" pattern, and their focus on information that's presented in bulleted lists. In this case, there's also a small amount of attention to the "see also" area, but no viewing of the promotions in the rightmost column.
Another eye-tracking research result
References
Wendy Willard (2010). Web Design DeMYSTiFieD. McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
http://www.useit.com/eyetracking/ accessed date 15 June 2012
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