Fluid or fixed? That is the question...

Here is an interesting post talking about fixed or fluid based layouts and designs:

Introduction:
Today, one of the most popular and more modern web layouts is that of the fixed width layouts. Here, we take a look a look at the advantages and disadvantages of both fluid and fixed layouts and discuss some reasons why some people may pick one over the other.


Link:
Fluid or fixed? That is the question…

Enjoy!

 

fixed IMO because to many theme problems when browsers are open and undersized.

 

Hmmm. I recently revamped my site to add floats.

For a full screen, I find that it makes little difference, but in my new site (oldwithoutmoney dot com), when I resize the browser (or if the brower's only taking up 1/2 to 2/3 of the screen), floating is better, to my eye.

And I must say that I do like the fact that the browser can be resized and the image resizes proportionally.

- Richard
oldwithoutmoney dot com

 

It mostly depends on the function and purpose of your pages.

I use fluid/flexible layout for my Home (Portal) page and this Directory page -- both provide full Browser display (without horizontal scrolling) in current versions of MSIE 6, MSIE 7, Firefox 2, Opera 9, Mozilla 2 and Safari 3 graphical Browsers at 1280 by 1024, 1024 by 768, 800 by 600 resolutions, and small screen rendering mode.

I use fixed width layout for my individual pages as depicted here -- again, providing full Browser display (without horizontal scrolling) in current versions of MSIE 6, MSIE 7, Firefox 2, Opera 9, Mozilla 2 and Safari 3 graphical Browsers at 1280 by 1024, 1024 by 768, 800 by 600 resolutions, and small screen rendering mode.

James

 

fixed also, because many template used it.

 

I would agree and say fixed also

 

Fixed will give you less problems in the long run. It's more the standard and you won't have a hard time using it IMO.

 

I have a suspicion that is because many producers of templates don't know how to generate fluid/flexible pages. Again, it all depends on the function and purpose of the page.

James

 

Hybrid layouts are the best IMO (i.e. partly fluid, partly fixed).

 

I agree.

If you don't have a big screen to test on then be careful with fluid. Some fluid sites look truely crap @ 1920 or bigger and I usually assume that the designer just hasn't tried it that wide.