Centralized designs
Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2006-09-06
A thing most modern web designs share is that the pages are centered. These pages often become narrow strips on higher resolutions, and end up looking awful.
Now how to cope with it?
It all comes back to stretchable pages. Pages must be, at least to some extent, stretchable!
And stretchable does not necessarily mean that the content containers have to get wider. No, it means that, with the use of CSS, the containers must float into new positions as resolution increases.
The goal is to use the availible width, as well as height, to present your content. For example, a two-column design could easily become a three-column one on a high-resolution screen, thus improving the user expirience.
2 comments
Stretchable design is important. People shouldn't have to look at the left or the right of their screen to read content.
Despite that, none of the designs I've sold are centered
But as you mentioned, they can look like narrow stripes on i.e. the 30" Cinema Display.
Magnus at 2006-09-13 @646.
i often see many sites like this on my 17"too
ann at 2006-09-13 @716.
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