You might want to watch that -- a LOT of these terms have VERY specific meanings. If you had said "fixed width layout" I'd have known instantly what you meant. Typically "static website" just means one without server side processing behind it. Laughably a lot of those PSD designs you were pointing at as good in the other thread are in fact fixed width layouts, so saying "nobody does that anymore" is in conflict with your own arguments -- hence why another commenter thought they were decade old or more. I think a lot of our misunderstanding each-other is your misusing or failing to grasp some of the terminology. ... and that's another of the disconnects between your thinking and mine. Layout is just a small part of a webpage; search engines don't have eyeballs and could give a flying purple fish about your "layout" -- not all Internet users are sighted, not all screen sizes should even get the same layout, screen layout rarely makes much sense for print, or aural, or legacy handheld. Not all users even browse the web site CSS or styles enabled. See how much sense that layout makes on a braille reader. To me a layout is a small part of a web page, not even close to the whole picture much less a sane/rational starting point for one.
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