No subject

layouts is that technically incompetant editors are often left in charge of 
the CMS and only ever check what their content looks like at the size of 
*their* browser window.

The most common problem is the editor who lines everyithing nicely to fit 
round an image and then gets complaints from other users that the page is 
hard to read. The complaint  usually comes back to the developer and of 
course there is no reasonable solution as control over layout is limited 
causing customer to get narky since as the developer you are meant to be 
able to do 'magic' and make everything exactly how they ask. That's one of 
the main reasons I discourage customers from using liquid layouts however 
'nice' they can look.

Not sure about the BBC news site but I think it is an improvement over that 
narrow strip hugging the LHS of the screen.

> I only really notice ones that look absurd in a widescreen, but now you
mention it I see a missed opportunity in http://news.bbc.co.uk/ - after
years of insistence that the average viewer is 600px they jump to
a presumptuous 1000 without a drop of liquid :(