On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Devon Scott-Tunkin <djvonfun...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > ...
> This is something I have put much thought into and I believe using a > combination of fluid width with maximum and minimums is the best solution > for single column pages and have chosen this design instead of fixed width > or completely fluid width. > > As webpagesthatsuck.com will tell you in its list of no-nos for web > design: > -Our site uses liquid design. > -Our site uses fixed-width design. (You can't win. Liquid is wrong on > wide-screen monitors because you have line lengths that are hard to read — > and vice versa.) > > you just can't win ;). > > but if you want the objectivity behind my decisions please read: > http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/feb03.asp > > I find it interesting that this study notes kids prefer ~45 characters per > line and then web 2.0 sites popular with kids (myspace (shudder), facebook, > blog templates etc) all have extremely short fixed-length line lengths for > their content columns. > > best, > > Devon > Specific content adds additional constraints to the width conundrum; look at http://pygameweb.no-ip.org/snippets/4/ some code lines are truncated to fit, very bad for code. And adding a horizontal scroll bar is not really a solution. The projects column adds nothing to the page value, and takes real state better to be used for code. (additional note for this specific page: IE7 cannot save this page as html plus images; only as .mht ) -- claxo
