All entries for Thursday 20 March 2008

Fixed Width v Stretch to Fit Websites

Writing about web page http://unipole.co.uk/default.aspx

Many website templates and free website builders, such as Google’s Page Builder & Free Parking’s WizzSites have a fixed width for your website. This has the advantage of fixing your websites look. To ensure this for most viewers screen resolutions these are normally kept quite narrow.

The MS Office Live SB website builder defaults to 780px wide. You can enable their ‘Advanced Design Features’ and this allows you to select 100% where the webpage will ‘strech to fit’. I quite like this approach since we cannot determine the shape that the browser window will be in the user’s screen. An example has been created by Lee of Unipole with a three column design using 100%. His site’s minimum width is set by the 941px logo but his design manufacture & finishing page is slightly wider due to the picture’s he used.

Another good example of the ‘strech to fit’ approach are these Warwick Blogs especially when used with pictures that ‘float’ using BlogBuilder.

Robert McGonigle : 20 Mar 2008 11:21 |  Tags: Free Websites Msolsb Website Templates |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem