From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 30 09:32:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B36516A41C; Mon, 30 May 2005 09:32:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from rambo.401.cx (rambo.401.cx [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B979943D1F; Mon, 30 May 2005 09:32:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from [10.3.101.26] (132.dairy.twenty4help.se [80.65.195.132]) by rambo.401.cx (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4U9WkIP071408; Mon, 30 May 2005 11:32:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <429ADDB9.2000608@401.cx> Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 11:32:41 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erich Dollansky References: <429ACA6F.9000302@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <429ACA6F.9000302@pacific.net.sg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [30-05-05] Layout update X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 09:32:49 -0000 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > John Jawed wrote: > >> I've tried to amend to the best of my ability the resizing issues >> mentioned earlier. I think, if you do not know much about CSS layouts, >> that you should expect some type of distortion at some unrealistically >> small resolutions (less than 800x600). > > Try to use a fixed width for the left and right columns. I beg to differ, use fixed size for the middle column instead and let the right side column get whatever is left over. The problem on my screen is that the right side column is way to wide and squeezes the middle column into a thin stripe of text, basically unreadable. Believe it or not, but the most common resolution today is still 800x600. And, even with a 19" screen and 1280x1024, I *never* use my browser full-screen, I keep it at around half the screen size, and I basically refuse to use websites that does not scale well to this size. And I know Im not the only one. Designing webpages for big screens with high resolutions is just bad practice, imho! -- R