Coming from a web design / web programming background (PHP), if there is anything i can do towards the design / interface / back-end, I would would be happy to put some time into site if there is anything I can do. There are pro's and cons with fixed width design. Fixed width can make things a lot more readable as you don't have excessively long lines to read on computers with hi-res screens. A lot of people do find this is true. On the other hand for a site involving a lot of code snippets, you will have a lot of <code> and / or <pre> blocks that have code that need to be non wrap-able and monospace fonts, so liquid layouts are a bonus there, as these code snippets can often break a fixed width design. Using CSS / XHTML it is possible to allow the user have choice over fixed / liquid / elastic layouts (This way the user can have the choice what layout they want), and I have experimented with this personally. I would be happy to contribute my skills in this direction. I have decent design skiils and could probably come up something design wise a little more interesting without going too OTT (nothing worst than sites that have that nasty generic / busy Postnuke / Tikiwiki feel to them). Anyway thats just a bit of food for thought. Jason On 4 Ebr 2005, at 13:35, Miro Jurisic wrote:
In article <20050404045007.M6858@crystalclearsoftware.com>, "Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:
I favor user control over publisher control.
This can be designed so that you can use a custom style sheet to override.
ps: In case you can't tell this one is a pet peeve of mine -- I really, really dislike fixed width sites. Let's not make Boost one of them.
I don't think that "this is a pet peeve of mine" is a valid argument. You are basically saying that we should sacrifice readability for the majority of users who will come to the site and not even be aware of the fact that the reason that the web site is hard to read is that their window is wide. I don't think that's the right tradeoff here.
meeroh
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