Fluid or Fixed

[Shazz]

What do your prefer looks better
and you would use on your site

*Poll

[Adrian Schneider]

I like having a choice... usually around 760px or 80-90% width. Both centered.

[peterska2]

fluid for me

[RS_Jelle]

Fixed, so you can manage the look of your site more accurate, so it looks the same on every screen
But ofcourse you can let your users choose.

[Paul M]

Fluid - nothing is more annoying than a forum that only fills half your screen.

[Shazz]

Originally Posted by RS_Jelle

Fixed, so you can manage the look of your site more accurate, so it looks the same on every screen
But ofcourse you can let your users choose.

Yea I have both as well, so users may choose

[Olli460]

I like it fixed because it looks more professional in my opinion. I really dont like having wide forums...>_< Although, I do let my users pick as well.

[Princeton]

Fixed ...

Readability = Usability

"We" are accustom to reading in a defined width/height ... eg. books, letters, etc.

• People don't like reading more than x amount of words per line ... newspapers are broken up into columns for a reason
• Everyone sees the same thing that you see. eg. equal amount of text; equal amount of white space, etc

TIP

1. You should always design with the lowest common denominator in mind.
2. A fixed layout is not always best. For example, a site primarily to showcase photos would be best in a variable (liquid) width layout.
3. If using a variable layout ... make sure the text area is a fixed width this will help ensure that your readers will stick around to read the entire text.

[Shazz]

Originally Posted by Princeton

Fixed ...

Readability = Usability

"We" are accustom to reading in a defined width/height ... eg. books, letters, etc.

• People don't like reading more than x amount of words per line ... newspapers are broken up into columns for a reason
• Everyone sees the same thing that you see. eg. equal amount of text; equal amount of white space, etc

TIP

1. You should always design with the lowest common denominator in mind.
2. A fixed layout is not always best. For example, a site primarily to showcase photos would be best in a variable (liquid) width layout.
3. If using a variable layout ... make sure the text area is a fixed width this will help ensure that your readers will stick around to read the entire text.

Nice statements
I like this post so much im going to quote it for my other thread of this.

[Smoothie]

Fluid is my choice. And if people are so set in reading in fixed width/height as stated above, a simple drag of the browser window fixes that.

BTW, fixed width looks like crap on a big screen and there ain't a damn thing that you can do to change that. Fluid allows many choices. :P