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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I don't mean to be picky, especially since the above guys all know much more than me, but I always understood liquid design to be a design whereby the content would flow and move to always fill the availble space without looking shite at any one stage. The guy specifically asks for a site that looks the same in all screen resolutions, liquid design doesn't really provide that in my opinion, it is the best way to go tho. If you want truly fixed rigid design tha is exactly the same in all resolutions then you have two main options: 1. use absolute position and a 'rigid' design structure, this will always look the same but will have lots of blank space on larger resolutions and may have horizontal scroll bars on smaller resolutions depending on your chosen 'rigid' design width. 2. use Flash and let it be scaleable within the browser window. This is sacrilage in this forum tho, so I suggest if you choose this option you find yourself a Flash forum to discuss it in (www.actionscript.org is good). This method also has it's own range of problems, notably it's bad text rendering (harsh anti-aliasing probs), userbility issues and awkward updateability. It can be done well, but you'll need to be a real pro to do it, the trick is to make a site that looks like it isn't made in flash, not as easy as it sounds. My advice is the same as the other guys tho, go liquid - it is the most professional and user friendly design 'style', but you will need to know your css or stuff will go everywhere. If you are worrying about res then you are obviously concerned with appearances and you should also worry about browser compatibility (mozilla/netscape is most important second to IE, then you have Opera which can be a bugger (V.7 tho is quite nice and like IE, although IE is M$ and therefore evil), but stick to standards and you'll be ok. Finally I mustn't forget Mac IE, truly a nasty one, good compatibility in some areas, big bugs in others, and you'll need a mac to do any debugging.) [This message has been edited by smonkey (edited 05-12-2003).] Loading...
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