[BNM] Liquid layouts

[Joe Aliferis]

liquid layouts are an expression of developers bending over and offering 
their asses to designers..

'yes, sir - and would you like fries with that !'

'undermine the ethos of the Internet with your design layouts - of 
course, sir'

'want to design websites but don't understand the medium - well we offer 
liquid layouts, sir'

I have done a few over the years - and they're rubbish...

liquid layouts need to be combined with liquid content - and that's 
expensive to build.

On their own they are not much more than a hack to please designers and 
clients


Joe


dave at sqoo.co.uk wrote:
> >From my experience, the problem with large, complex sites with liquid 
> 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 :(
>
>