RE: [WSG] Actual page width (was: drop down menus)

[theGrafixGuy]

Why is it some one always pipes up with that answer? One would almost be led to believe that "flexible" is the answer to everything.   Flexible will not be inscribed on the Pearly Gates and it is not the Holy Grail of site design.   Flexible sites are nice in certain cases, but as I inferred above, they are NOT an optimal solution nor are they fitting for every design, style or appearance. And they are far from being the answer for everything.   No one building professional web sites would want to limit themselves to nothing but flexable width sites.   Brian From: Bernie Howe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 6:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Actual page width (was: drop down menus) Build you site flexable and not fixed, let it expand from 640x480  to 1024x768     ----- Original Message ----- From: Cameron Adams To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 6:29 PM Subject: RE: [WSG] Actual page width (was: drop down menus) I generally design to 760px width, that gives you a fairly big margin of error. The actual Windows scrollbar is 16px, but it varies across OS/browser, and you also have to think of collapsed side bars, etc. Better to err on the side of narrowness. -- Cameron Adams W: www.themaninblue.com --- theGrafixGuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When a screen resolution is 800 x 600 - what is the > Actual width of the > browser viewing area (taking the window borders into > account). If the page > extends beyond the depth of the page and the browser > adds a scroll-bar, what > is the width of the browser's viewwing area now?? >  > Thanks a bunch and forgive me if this is somewhere > out there, I just have > not been able to find the answers. >  > Brian >  >  > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************