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Posted by the red dot on 12/08/06 16:01
"Travis Newbury" <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Ed Seedhouse wrote:
> > >> >I prefer fixed width sites
> > >> Hardly the point. What do people who have to use your sites prerfer?
> > >Ahh, your opinion is obviously more what people need.
> > My opinion is based on some facts.
> As are mine...
>
> > Fixed width sites are generally
> > brittle and harder to use. Are you writing a web site just for
> > yourself, or for the folks with web browsers that you want to visit it?
>
> I am not writing web sites at all. I write pieces of websites.
>
> > Of course content is vastly more important than mere layout.
>
> The problem you seem to miss is content can NOT always be separated
> from layout.
>
> > I go back
> > to sites that truly suck design-wise because they have content I really
> > want.
>
> As do I...
>
> > But given that you have content that people want to use why would
> > you go out of your way to design your site in a way that makes it harder
> > to use than it needs to be?
>
> Because for the majority (obviously not you personally) of the visitors
> they LIKE it presented in that manner. YOU are not the only visitor.
> Sometimes what you like, is NOT what the majority of the visitors like.
> (And visa-versa sometimes what I like is not what the majority of the
> visitors like)
>
>
> > Fixed width designs do just that. There
> > are even worse offences out there, but fixed width is one of them.
>
> Or not. It completely depends on each particular site. One size does
> NOT fit all on the web.
>
> > What about people who don't see so well and have to enlarge your fonts?
> > What happens to your fixed width sites on a few size increases?
>
> They can't see them. Oh well, sucks to be those people. But if the
> layout of the site brings in more money, then it is the right way to
> go.
i was under the impression that there are now laws on accessibility re folk
with disabilities ie unable to see, btw can a screenreader read a flash
site? - from my understanding any site that cannot be read by a screen
reader is breaking the law.
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