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Fluid Skins: Debate
Topic Started: Mar 16 2008, 07:36 AM (1,178 Views)
Leonardo
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Fluid skins are skins that stretch depending on the user's resolution, we can be a beneficial aspect to skinning. However is it really that appealing?

Firstly there are many flaws with this especially since many users do not consider those who have extremely large resolutions and do not restrict the width and hence the skin stretches too much horizontally. Also there is the case for small resolution users who see the skin as very compact and hence the maintitle or h2 will seem squished up and ultimately overlapping each other.

On the other hand, it can be beneficial in many ways if they are used correctly. Such as width restrictions that are perfect for both, large and small resolution users.

What are you thoughts on this issue? Are you for fluid skins or do you think IF skins should be fixed widths like they used to be?

I'm curious to what you all think. :r
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x! Shifty
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Fluid skins should be the way all skins are constructed, but with both max-width and min-width values.

Fixed-width skins suffer more problems on large resolutions (2000 wide) than fluids do — I've seen so many repeating background images. And images the perfect width to have effects left and right of the board — which then repeat. It's horrible, but it's only because people tend to be ignorant to the possibility of larger monitor displays now. Fluid skins stop that though, IMO. Or at least, they do to some degree.
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I prefer restricted widths on everything nowadays. Fluid skins can end up looking very wide on larger resolutions, which ends up with the line length being long and it really becomes a nuisance when trying to read it. On the other hand, I suppose fluid ensures that some elements look good on different resolutions.

I still prefer restricted widths. :P
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Leonardo
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I loathe skins that aren't restricted because the description stretches and looks like one extremely long line which I find frustrating to read.

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i always make my skins fluid. I have a wide moniter, so I usually make my skins just wide enough to look good on my computer, and not have things bunched together on small moniters. but fixed skins are sometimes easier to code.
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Silver Buizel
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i think the one with the limit is better
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Storm the Chao
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Why would someone make this so-called "fluid" skin? I've never seen one before. It sounds stupid to me...
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Mar 17 2008, 09:14 PM
Why would someone make this so-called "fluid" skin? I've never seen one before. It sounds stupid to me...

This skin is fluid :P

Anyways, I used to really like fluid skins. but I started to notice they looked like crap in huge resolutions, so I have slowly become more fond of fixed width skins.
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Mar 17 2008, 10:14 PM
Why would someone make this so-called "fluid" skin? I've never seen one before. It sounds stupid to me...

A design is called fluid (or liquid, flexible) when the width and the height of the page layout adapt to screen resolution or browser window. Fluid design is achieved by using Cascading Style Sheets for layout and using flexible measurement units (%, em) for specifying block size, paddings, margins, etc.

Benefits of fluid design are that a visitor is always able to see the entire width of the screen on small resolutions/browser window, the site expands on larger resolutions/windows so there is no extra white space, and when the site expands in width, scrolling vertically may not be necessary.
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But no one who goes to my boards uses a different res than me, so it doesn't matter.
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x! Shifty
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^ :o I say, em aren't fluid widths :P They're just like pixels, only they're scalable.

TBH I see what people are saying about the huuuuuuuuge width that you sometimes get, and one-line descriptions everywhere. You get used to it though, which is okay. Also, the SZ seems fine to me. Wouldn't want it to be fixed width on this skin for sure.
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x! Shifty
Mar 16 2008, 05:26 AM
Fluid skins should be the way all skins are constructed, but with both max-width and min-width values.

Fixed-width skins suffer more problems on large resolutions (2000 wide) than fluids do — I've seen so many repeating background images. And images the perfect width to have effects left and right of the board — which then repeat. It's horrible, but it's only because people tend to be ignorant to the possibility of larger monitor displays now. Fluid skins stop that though, IMO. Or at least, they do to some degree.

correct and agreed
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Locke
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I see the trend in design right nor for zb is fixed width, but i have always preferred fluidity in the past. However, I do have a larger screen now than I ever have before and that can be awkward for a design's appearance when stretched to such an extent. I think that fluid, with min and max values are potentionally the direction that I will follow.
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Sith
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I only design fluid skins nowadays, even of ZetaBoards.
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I prefer fluid skins. I have quite a large screen resolution and it bugs me when skins are really thin and compact.
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