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Luke
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Post by Luke »

pickle wrote:The ONLY thing I could thing of to mention would be that it's fixed width. There's nothing technically wrong with that - I just see it as a waste of space.
I only see fixed width as a waste of space when there is enough content to justify liquid layout... in this case, there isn't. He would be wasting just as much space with a liquid layout because on my screen, the content would only fill up the top quarter of the screen. Wasting space to the left and right make a lot more sense to me than having all content on the top quarter of the page.
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Post by matthijs »

"A waste of space".... mmm were did I hear that before? O yeah I remember. These clients who asked if it wasn't possible to fill up all the un-used space in that well-crafted designs I (tried to) made, carefully balancing content with whitespace.


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whitespace rules



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Post by JayBird »

When i'm doing Graphic design for clients and i do a design with lots of white space, i just say there is a special offer on white space at the moment...they usually buy it :lol:
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Post by matthijs »

That's a good one :D

Now: "whitespace half price!! offer valid only today!!"
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

A fixed width value of 640 is a little skinny. Considering that the scroll bar defaults to 30px, you could assumed and 800px with screen, 770px usable area on large resolution screens, then give yourself a 15px border, leaving you a 740px content width. That might spruce it up a bit. But seriously, you are not using this particular design to showcase your skills, you are using it to give people an idea of who you are. Fixed vs Fluid is a topic for another discussion.
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