What size do you make fixed-width sites?
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What size do you make fixed-width sites?
I was just wondering whether 800 x 600 is still the most popular.
I make them 780 width to provide room for the vertical scroll bar and give a little padding, otherwise, even people at 800x600 have to scroll horizontally.
I'd like to know how yahoo is doing it now to display a width that is greater if your screen settings are greater than 800 pixels wide. As far as I can see, they're not using javascript.
I'd like to know how yahoo is doing it now to display a width that is greater if your screen settings are greater than 800 pixels wide. As far as I can see, they're not using javascript.
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Are you sure 780 will work with ie? I just tried and it's causing h-scrolling. 770 works w/o page margins, and 760 works no matter what (at least in my testing)Burrito wrote:I make them 780 width to provide room for the vertical scroll bar and give a little padding, otherwise, even people at 800x600 have to scroll horizontally.
no, you're right, at 780 the scroll bar appears, but they're not forced to scroll. If you take the margins off, the scroll bar appears (if I remember correctly) but you can't even move it. While potentially an eye sore, scrolling isn't required to see any content on the page.nickvd wrote:Are you sure 780 will work with ie? I just tried and it's causing h-scrolling. 770 works w/o page margins, and 760 works no matter what (at least in my testing)
From my statistics 800x600 is second most popular. Behind 1024x768.
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They do have a nice "paper" sort of feel. Because they are rigid it feels more like you're viewing a document. I personally quite like fixed-width layouts providing they aren't all squished up in the middle of the page. Even on a fixed-width layout whitespace is your friend.nickvd wrote:Though I hate making them, my clients seem to love them.
I still design everything I do around 800x600 (760px max width).
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