10 March, 2011

Liquid Layouts

Web design has come along way over the years along with screen resolutions. As it’s evolved you can no longer just expect people to be using the typical 1024*768 screen resolution. Screen’s nowadays come in all shapes and sizes some people even use HDTV’s, why not make use of some of that potential extra space you have and adapt your site to sustain larger and smaller resolutions for a better user experience? It is 2011 remember technology is far superior to how it was 5 years ago.
Liquid Layout
Not only do you have to consider screen resolution but also aspect ratio, take the iPhone or iPad Touch for example, they have the ability to flip your site in an instant. Take our site for example, if your screen resolution is bigger than 1200px wide the sidebar will be double the width otherwise it will fall-back to a suitable size for a 1024px width resolution. Give it a go, change the browser width and see it change.
There are many popular site’s that do this already so there’s no reason why you shouldn’t support multiple resolutions, after all if you have the ability to use more space why not use it?

Source: http://thefinishedbox.com

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