Also depends on your monitor size :p

How about a "Don't Care, as long as the design is a good one".

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I agree with what Boofo is saying about widescreens' being the new norm, and I cannot counteract my statements in a discussion on enlarging my editor.

BUT

On our board we actually used Fixed and it's because we can't find a solution to the problem namely. Since some of our semi-transparent skins, ok...all of them, use a jpeg background fixed is the only way we can figure to make it look good for the "majority" of screen resolutions out there.

Unfortunately it tiles on bigger screens but if we go fluid the 70% or so of people that have 1024 x 768 will not even come close to seeing all that the bg shows, it basically stretches to hell and don't look good.

We asked for any suggestion to this since it's not like a simple gradient or one color bg, it's an actual image and we cannot find a solution to it. So unfortunately for those with bigger monitors it prolly doesn't look so great.

If fixed is done right, then it's not a problem.

Elastic layout (using em's for padding and margin) is absolutely wonderful... until you want to raise the font-size. Then you raise everything and have a bit of tweaking on your hands.

I personally mixed both fixed and fluid in my design, and I think it's working out just fine.