By Shai on
I'm frustrated in the trend toward fixed width sites. I actually feel it has philosophical implications. I feel it communicates to the end user that the site developer is controlling and knows exactly how to present the experience to the end-user. I think content heavy activist sites are where fluid-width designs can and should flourish.
Can anybody point to examples of great implimentations of fluid-template Drupal sites.
I'm pleased that Garland is fluid and hope it remains the default theme for Drupal, but I fear that the trends are going speedily towards fixed-width.
The world needs to get over its "control issues" and Drupal should help lead the way :) IMHO,
Shai
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I agree...
... but dude, your site is fixed width. ;)
- Chad
I knew someone would catch
I knew someone would catch me on that... :)
Truth is, I'm a recent convert to fluid. What I've liked about fixed witdh is how easy it is to photographs as banners. Logos are great for fluid width.
I'm in process...
Any ideas on using photos for banners in a fluid width environment?
content2zero.com
content2zero.com
Agreed
From my google analytics stats I can see that the trend is towards higher resolution screens, also "wide" screen format of many laptops. Less than 3% of my traffic is 800 X 600. Worse, many fixed width 760 pixel sites are left aligned so there is a huge blank area on the right, daft INMHO.
Yes, I know one of these below sites is fixed, but I'm working on it!
Edited: Any ideas on using photos for banners in a fluid width environment? Yes, fade the right side of the photo to some colur which is the default background colour of the css header/banner element. Then it looks reasonable on the really wide resolutions.
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