Me and a friend who develop websites were having a debate about this. Do you prefer to design your websites to be static, or used pre-defeined widths and heights for everything?
Liquid. It's much better. I don't like having lots of space on a page, unless the content is something i'm interested about I would leave the site.
I prefer static width. I usually hate 100% width websites, any other are fine. Heights should always be variable though...
could you give examples of sites that would work better in a liquid format, and sites that work better in a static format?
Yeah I guess it would really depend on the site you are working on... but for me it would be liquid...
I personally prefer to use a constrained min/max width elastic layout using a percentage on the body selector and then EM on the containers to allow for the text and containers to resize (and not break the layout) when the text size in the browser is changed.
Was a fan of liquid but in some layouts static is necessary just incase the site's layout may be a little funny looking if a liquid layout is used.