I think it looks okay on 800 px monitors, which are the norm and on 1024,
If this refers to that index2 that you linked above – No. It’s not OK in FF 1024px: has horizontal scroll.
Thanks Moshu. I was hoping that somebody would step in here and look at it because I don’t have other browsers besides the much despised internet explorer. Why on earth would it have a horizontal scroll on a browser that large?
Anyway the lines of text are too long. It should probably be a smaller percentage of the page. But then it shrinks up real nasty in smaller browsers. Makes me think that fixed width wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
mycoo62: have you thought aboout changing your template? Some of them are more flexible than others. The one I’m using shrinks up great, which is the actually the only reason I chose it. But then again it lacks a header – a price I was willing to pay for not watching my columns shrink or staring at negative space. Plus I thought the nontraditional format was quirky in a good way.
I’d suggest taking another look at the available themes and testing them in different browsers at different resolutions before choosing.
Fluid layout is a nice idea – if you know how to “tame” it.
I just posted about it the other day:
http://www.transycan.net/blogtest/2006/05/17/designing-flexible-fluid-layout/