[WBEL-devel] slightly off topic web site question

donavan nelson donavan@4wx.net
Fri, 5 Dec 2003 01:09:46 -0600


Well, what I ended up with was a fixed right column and a variable left
column.  It does blowup now and then (on the stats page with refers).  But
works well otherwise.

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 01:07:40 -0600 (CST), John Morris wrote
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, donavan nelson wrote:
> 
> > Due to the nature of the layout etc, I want to use a fixed with size.  What is
> > preferable?  design for 800x600 or 1024x768?
> 
> Fixed layout is evil!
> 
> > I use 1600x1200 on everything I do, but I never run a web browsers full
> > screen.  Is designing for a fixed width a bad choice?
> 
> I like to blow the fonts up, especially at home on my 20" Sun 
> monitor, but on too many websites I'm left with three words per 
> column and a mostly white screen.
> 
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