What size do you make fixed-width sites?
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:21 pm
I was just wondering whether 800 x 600 is still the most popular.
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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)
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.
Why is that?theYinYeti wrote:Fixed-width is a bad practice...
I second that; how can it possibly be a bad practise? Sounds more like personal preference to me. That's like saying "pink tones in web design are bad practise", but really, I quite like pink.The Ninja Space Goat wrote:Why is that?theYinYeti wrote:Fixed-width is a bad practice...