mjames — Thu, 08 Mar 2001 23:03:05 +0000

I thought I'd add that when I launched my new design back in August of last year, it was only 650 pixels wide and didn't look good aligned all the way to the left in high resolutions. So, we decided to center it and it looks best that way.

Beanboy — Thu, 08 Mar 2001 18:35:10 +0000

The benefit of centering is nice when high resolution comes into play, but having it set to the left gives a good anchoring point for the eye, also lets you have a dark color sidebar without making the user feel like he or she is trapped.

As for setting width to a %, for some tech or news heavy sites where getting as much information onto the page with minimal load time is the top priority, I like it. For other sites, the white space control and ability to top the page off with a full-width graphic by setting a pixel width becomes more of an issue.

-Beanboy

Megan — Thu, 08 Mar 2001 18:19:02 +0000

I mean width=100%.

mairving — Thu, 08 Mar 2001 15:31:58 +0000

What do you mean by flexible design?
Something like or
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Megan — Thu, 08 Mar 2001 15:04:12 +0000

You mean centering the layout? I think that's definitely the way to go. When you have a large resolution sites look pretty stupid jammed up against the left margin.

Of course, my prefered method is to use a flexible design (which can be a problem for people with *really* big resolutions but with the sites I do those are few and far between).