[thelist] Liquid layouts and holy warfare: TRAVELOCITY mistake

Luc Carton luc_carton at eshopability.com
Wed Feb 27 04:32:01 CST 2002


Liquid layout is very difficult to use for guiding the user's eye to the
parts of the pages the site wants him to look at.

A good example of this is the new homepage of Travelocity.com

The automatic repositioning of the elements has a disastrous effect here
when a resolution of 800x600 pixels (the most common) is used: a large
empty space appears to the right of the search engine, which unbalances the
right-hand side of the page and greatly reduces its effectiveness.

I wrote an article on new Travelocity homepage that can be read here:
http://www.eshopability.com/travelocity.htm

Luc CARTON
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