Posted by dorayme on 09/30/85 12:00

In article <8oqro396d20dbh3b9pdpj0g4gc4h307pa6@4ax.com>,
XyZed <andy@washerhelp.co.uk> wrote:

> I started my site about 8 years ago and for a couple of years I came
> here every day and learnt most of what I know.
>
> Eventually I stopped coming because although I only learnt a fraction
> of what there is to learn I settled for making my sites using simple
> html and css so eventually concentrated on adding content rather than
> learning more techniques.
>
> Back in the day I was convinced by a core of purists to design a fluid
> site that worked on all formats and used only css for styling.
>
> My question is, does that hold as true today as it did then or have
> things changed?
>
> I particularly have a worry about my 100% width because of the
> proliferation of wide screen monitors. My site takes up the entire
> length of large wide screens and the text stretches al the way across
> it.
>
> Is there an accepted different technique these days to deal with wide
> screens or should a page still be set to take up the whole page?

Who gave you permission to leave? How dare you try to concentrate
on content? That will teach you. 8 years! Do you really suppose
that you can get away with truancy like this scot-free?

It is worth using max-width (supported by most browsers including
IE7 now, but not 6). You can use it on body (there are some
issues about this), you can *make* a wrapper for the site and use
it on the wrapper, you can use it on the parts of the site by eg,
giving the content a max width in px or ems (I recommend em here)
after having given any side bars widths (in px or ems)

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dorayme

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