Request for website testers and reviewers...

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by johnnyrod

JD, my advice for the screen size thing is to fix the column width (in pixels) on the left so that the images fit, and leave everything else to fill up the rest of the screen, the browser will sort out the formatting for you and it'll always look okay. To be honest, a notice on a site that says "optimised for IE v.xx screen rez this x that" means that the developer hasn't given sufficient thought to what it is they're trying to do, even though this is the sort of thing you see on a lot of sites.

I gave a lot of thought to this. I understand about about being able to just let the browser spread out the content - but then you leave that up to something you have no control over. You then have to dynamically calc all the graphics - or else everything gets screwed up. Your idea works great as long as the site doesn't contain a lot of graphics - this will contain a lot of graphics.

BTW - most sites only give a sense of spreading out - by having everything within a main table and centering that table. I chose not to take that route and went with the style that many other sites do - including CNN.com.