[Web4lib] Nielsen's Top 10 - 2005 version

[Leo Robert Klein]

"Fixed" for me is a set length whether in pixels or em's or whatever. 
There is some fluidity in the layouts but even with Salon they stop 
after a certain point.  They don't go on forever.

LEO


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Leo Robert Klein
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Eric Hellman wrote:
> I think that before you start citing salon, yahoo and sun as exemplary 
> sites (good or bad), you should first of all characterize them accurately.
> 
> Salon is NOT a fixed width site- it widens if you make your window 
> wider. true, the 4 columns require a rather large minimum width, but...
> 
> www.Yahoo.com scales its width based on your font size- pretty cool- it 
> appears to be a fixed number of characters wide. It's much more advanced 
> than your typical site that codes for a fixed screen width. my.yahoo.com 
> is a fully flowing, non-fixed width site.
> 
> www.sun.com is a good example of a fixed width site, but go look at 
> java.sun.com or sunsolve.sun.com, which are customer focused. It seems 
> the sales and marketing people at sun believe in fixed width and the 
> support and software people at sun believe in flowing layouts. Pick the 
> organization to emulate that you think is most similar to your 
> organization.
> 
>