From: "Steve Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well here's a guy who has done a bit of usability testing. To quote from
the
article:
"We know from user testing that users hate horizontal scrolling and always
comment negatively when they encounter it".
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050711.html
Of course he could be entirely wrong but I don't know of any more credible
research than his.
I know a lot of folks respect him. I'm not a huge fan, though. Like
everything, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
"How many people have set a window size that will make your page or my
page
either fall outside the viewing area or squish to the point that other
usability issues come to bear"
Quite a few actually, now that designers tend to design for a minimum
screen
resolution of 1024x768 while there are still a significant number of
people
still using lower resolutions.
A user's video settings do not equate with the size of his window. Taking
the approach I see so often taken by some web designers, if I were truly
going to design a page for people whose monitors were set to 1024 x 768, I
would have to assume the actual browser window would not, as is often the
case, be maximized. Now what do I do? ;-)
I don't intend to be argumentative and I really do wish I knew what the
answer were. Since I don't, I have to conclude that there are probably many
different answers. Sites like A List Apart or my own can probably get away
with a wider fixed design because of our audience. If I were making a site
for health information, it might wind up a lot more flexible.
--
Al Sparber - PVII
http://www.projectseven.com
Fully Automated Menu Systems | Galleries | Widgets
http://www.projectseven.com/go/Elevators
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