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I guess G JONES is advocating a variable width template/theme such as used at www.drupal.org.uk , which is supposed to fit within a 1024 width screen (the basic content width is 980px) - not bad for a 3 col layout. The template here seems to be about 1090px wide, and even allowing for the fact that not being able to see the RH margin/grey shading wouldn't be a problem you probably still need a screen width approaching 1100 to avoid horizontal scrolling.

Getting phpBB and the main site pages to work within a variable width template would I guess be possible but not necessarily easy. Life's a compromise ..

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Horizontal scrolling required at 1024x768 - not good.

If 20% of your browsers don't have larger screen resolution widths than 1024, every two in ten visitors are going to be rather less than impressed, and that's an enormous number of people and potential customers. Publishing on the web is about catering to as much of your audience as possible. If you want to take advantage of width, look at using .

I'd also suggest your layouts could do with being more open and simple - they're looking a little cluttered, particularly the home page.

Thanks for your feedback.

If a fluid layout could somehow give us consistency we'd jump on it however I don't see how it can? We want the site to look the same white space and layout wise across all browsers and platforms. If we make things variable to accommodate smaller resolutions we sacrifice the consistency we're looking for and we also end up making the layout look worse for the majority of our visitors. I note the example fluid site has no images to accommodate in its layout.

The text overload on the home page is a business necessity I'm afraid.

One thing that might be possible is to detect 1024x768 and centre the page in a different way so no scrolling is necessary. Or we can force the width to be a max of 1024 and see what happens to the layout.

Andrew

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