Comments on: Interface Design

By: User Interface Degradation - discuss

User Interface Degradation - discuss — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:16:18 +0000

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By: Andy Evans

Andy Evans — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:51:21 +0000

Nice work… like it! Andy

By: Kai Hendry

Kai Hendry — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:50:17 +0000

Fixed layouts are baaad mmkay?

Unless you’re using relative units like:
“margin: 3%; max-width: 80ex; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 80em;”, see http://webvm.net/

I think the value is making Web pages small and fluid so they function on the Desktop as well as small devices like the Android G1.

By: Dave Kinsella

Dave Kinsella — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:31:28 +0000

I used to prefer fluid layouts but as screen resolutions increase I’m now finding that fixed or limited width layouts give more control over keeping text lines to a readable length.
I also like the adaptive layout technique(http://www.alistapart.com/articles/switchymclayout) but it takes a lot of work to implement.

Have you checked your analytics to see what the screen resolutions used by the site users are?

By: » Interface Design

» Interface Design — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:16:16 +0000

[...] Now we don’t mess around with mockups in Photoshop, with some of the excellent plugins available for Firefox , including the Web Developer Tool Bar, Firebug, and Stylish, we can quickly and easily work on the interface and see how it … More [...]