[thelist] front end design: liquid design
Erika
ekm at seastorm.com
Sun Oct 19 14:10:29 CDT 2008
soooo....
how about a creating a liquid design w/ a max-width of 990px on the main
content area...
and columns/blocks w/in the main content area, to keep text lines short?
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_dim_max-width.asp
?
Erika
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Ben Dyer wrote:
> You know, I'm not a fan of liquid designs anymore. For two reasons really:
>
> 1. Generally, the wider the column of text, the more difficult it is to
> read naturally.
>
> 2. I'm noticing that, statistically speaking, monitor resolutions are
> trending higher and higher. 1024x768 is still the leader, but widths of
> 1280, 1360 and higher seem to becoming a lot more prevalent of late.
> Probably the average user is upgrading their monitors when they upgrade
> machines.
>
> Now, I know that many users won't maximize the browser window with a
> large screen space like that, but as these numbers keep increasing, the
> problem with point #1 will keep increasing as well. (66% width content
> div is still a wide reading space if the window is 1200+ pixels wide.)
>
> This is, of course, not to say that these concerns can't be mitigated
> somewhat, but with a liquid design it seems likely that *someone* will
> have text that will be difficult for them to read.
>
> --Ben
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 19, 2008, at 13:46, Erika <ekm at seastorm.com> wrote:
>
>> How many folks on this list consider themselves front-end designers?
>>
>> Of those who do, what are your feelings these days about liquid designs?
>>
>> like/dislike ? and why.
>>
>> just curious.
>>
>> thx
>>
>> Erika
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