Tijnema ! wrote:
I guess the same can be done with <div>... But the main problem is
that there's no real standard for resolution. I see people having
resolution set at 800x600, and 1600x200, how is it ever possible to
make a page look good at both? Resizing it to 1600x1200 would give you
an enormous page, while keeping it at 800 width makes it so damn
small. So lets say you re size it to 1024 width, then you still have
such damn borders on both sides. That doesn't look nice either. And
how would you do deal with pages that have a layout based on pictures?
Should you create a header that is 1600 width, and resize it down
until 800 when a user with 800x600 visits? and all images used at
borders and corners? That's the biggest problem in dynamic layouts.
Atm, i repeat small images around the borders, but that's a real pain
in the ass. For now, i mostly design static pages, that are best
viewable with 1024x768, and resolutions higher then that have those
damn borders... If sombody has a better way, i'd like to hear :)
Tijnema
I posted something in response to Ed by the damn list filters blocked it
as O.T.
Anyhow, essentially I said my layout conventions will expand as much as
necessary as the user expands their window size. Once there is no more
text being wrapped, no further expansion is possible. (And it wouldn't
make sense to do so anyhow, even if it were possible.) At that point,
it just centers the *block* of page content, while still keeping the
actual text left-justified within that block.
I think that's a hell of a lot better than site designs fixed for a
width of 800px or 1024px or whatever, because if more space becomes
available (like say 1600px), they still wrap the text within a tiny
tunnel-vision 800px (or whatever) fixed-width block. That's unnecessary
and gross.
An intuitive site designer should be able to identify what parts of
their layout _can_ expand without looking stupid, and what parts have to
stay at a specific size. Then design it accordingly so those sections
that can expand, will expand (given the opportunity to do so... ie.
being viewed in a large window.)
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