Liquid layouts and holy warfare (WAS RE: [thelist] Jakob Nielsen [was Anti-aliasing])

[John Handelaar]

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> Subject: RE: Liquid layouts and holy warfare (WAS RE: [thelist] Jakob
> Nielsen [was Anti-aliasing])
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> > From: "John Handelaar" <john at userfrenzy.com>
> >
> > I think my real point is that liquid layouts (or at least
> > the full-width ones) have exactly as many disadvantages as
> > 'solid' ones.
>
> i have a selfish question, then...
>
> if you surf to:
> http://algonquinstudios.com/
>
> are the content pages too liquid?  there's a lot of padding on
> both sides of the
> content, but it all (except for the case studies) scales down to sub-600px
> pretty well...  but do you personally find that harder to use?

In this case no, because you haven't gone too
small with the type nor proportionally too wide
with the text columns...

But at 1152 or 1280 it might get tricky with,
eg, /document_18.html.  I'll confess to preferring
the front page to the ones behind it though :-)

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