Megan — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:57:06 +0000

LOL, that's good Rob. I actually found a post about this on a popular blogging site (456 Berra St. - forget the actually spelling). It really makes me when other web designers - espeically well respect ones - cowtow to him like that!

robfenn — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:53:36 +0000

I really, really hate that guy. Someone should tell him that if you're really that butt ugly DON'T put a picture up on your homepage! Having said that, his website is so damn ugly it takes the attention of him, slightly

He hasn't got one bit of design DNA in him, and so his statements are always one sided. You just know if you met him he'd be an arrogant, smug git.

I'd love to slap him.

-Rob

Renegade — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:26:09 +0000

Yes!

Quote:
9. Frozen Layouts with Fixed Page Widths
Complaints here fell into two categories:

* On big monitors, websites are difficult to use if they don't resize with the window. Conversely, if users have a small window and a page doesn't use a liquid layout, it triggers insufferable horizontal scrolling.
* The rightmost part of a page is cut off when printing a frozen page. This is especially true for Europeans, who use narrower paper (A4) than Americans.

Font sizes are a related issue. Assuming a site doesn't commit mistake #1 and freeze the fonts, users with high-resolution monitors often bump up the font size. However, if they also want to bump up the window size to make the bigger text more readable, a frozen layout thwarts their efforts.

The very worst offenders are sites that freeze both the width and height of the viewport when displaying information in a pop-up window. Pop-ups are a mistake in their own right. If you must use them, don't force users to read in a tiny peephole. At an absolute minimum, let users resize any new windows.

I HATE sites with a fixed width.

demonhale — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 01:33:22 +0000

I second the motion...

bja888 — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:31:37 +0000

Its sad isn't it..