Had the same issue at my client. What we settled on was a 1280 design, but all the core message/buttons had to be mostly visible inside the ~1000x730 that's left after browser and XP chrome and scrollbars.
We use liquid layout for the verticle when text is long to avoid keyhole/scrolling, but keep it fixed width and just center so the designers can wrap their heads around it. As others have said, In general just because one has a huge screen size, does not mean that it's available, or that every pixel should be packed with information, it's still a matter of focusing the users attention at the right time on the right 'where can I go from here', and here 'white space' can help with this. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
