Now I'm looking at some of my old projects, which don't use any kind of fluid design techniques (for the sake of KISS) and under a 1024 resolution, I have some major whitespace on the right hand side and the thumbnailed display is only 4 columns wide. Under 800x600 it looks just right as everything fits nicely, but not so in 1024...
I am considering just making the thumbnails larger in 1024 so the same 4 column setup (which is required) will fill in some of that extra space...but, now I need to use javascript or have the user explicity state their resolution...
I have also considered, using a edge gutter technique...so that only the gutters(left & right) are actually resized:
So, 1024x768 might have left and right hand gutters which are 300 px each whereas 800x600 might have gutters only 80px wide...
Personally I prefer the gutter approach, as it makes your layout consistent aesthetically through any screen res and gives a more fluid design, but who knows...
I'm curious how you all might deal with such a situation?
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