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Re: Best Website Designs of 2010

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Post by rossriley » Sun, Jan 02, 2011, 12:49 AM UTC

dawgr wrote: post #39

rossriley wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you just need a container, make the width of it about 980px and set the margin like so: #page_container {margin:0px auto;}

Alright thank you. Just one last question, within that 980px space, would the design be liquid or fixed? Maybe it sounds stupid but I'm kind of new to CSS.

That would be fixed then, you can subdivide that 980px space into columns but nothing inside will stretch beyond the boundaries. Eg. here's one of our sites: http://nxbus.co.uk

You can see that while there's a background image on the full page, all of the content is constrained to a 962px width container with the auto margins. This keeps it centred but with a fixed width.

Re: Best Website Designs of 2010

#42

Post by dawgr » Sun, Jan 02, 2011, 1:02 PM UTC

rossriley wrote: post #41

dawgr wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alright thank you. Just one last question, within that 980px space, would the design be liquid or fixed? Maybe it sounds stupid but I'm kind of new to CSS.

That would be fixed then, you can subdivide that 980px space into columns but nothing inside will stretch beyond the boundaries. Eg. here's one of our sites: http://nxbus.co.uk You can see that while there's a background image on the full page, all of the content is constrained to a 962px width container with the auto margins. This keeps it centred but with a fixed width.

Alright, thank you.

Re: Best Website Designs of 2010

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Post by kn0thing » Sun, Jan 02, 2011, 7:55 PM UTC

redthrowaway wrote: post #14

As a disinterested observer, I can say two things: 1) They're pretty 2) They piss me off These sites scream style over substance. I can't think of an Alexa top 500 site that uses this kind of design. The only one I frequent would be Grooveshark, and their design is highly functional. Between facebook, gmail, reddit, HN, and the various blogs and news sites I visit, 98% of my time online is spent on sites that look no…

Thanks for the hipmunk & reddit shoutouts. We're definitely from the function > form school of web design. That said, I'd love a bit of polish on the reddit UI (Apple can pull it off, after all). Hipmunk is getting one soon -- function will never be compromised, but a bit of sexy makes it more palatable, faster, to a wider range of people.