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Fluid Skins: Debate
Topic Started: Mar 16 2008, 07:36 AM (1,179 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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Leonardo
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If you were making a skin that had a fixed width what would you put as the width? Personally I'll put 850px or so, however I'm not too sure if this is satisfying for large resolution users.
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Leonardo
Mar 21 2008, 07:56 AM
If you were making a skin that had a fixed width what would you put as the width? Personally I'll put 850px or so, however I'm not too sure if this is satisfying for large resolution users.

For me it would be around a 1000px but that wouldn't be fair to the users who use my skin because they might have very small resolutions. ^_^
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Lewiis
Mar 21 2008, 07:17 PM
Leonardo
Mar 21 2008, 07:56 AM
If you were making a skin that had a fixed width what would you put as the width? Personally I'll put 850px or so, however I'm not too sure if this is satisfying for large resolution users.

For me it would be around a 1000px but that wouldn't be fair to the users who use my skin because they might have very small resolutions. ^_^

1000px is fairly large. Hence why fluid skins are needed in this case.
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Journet
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Leonardo
Mar 21 2008, 08:19 AM
Lewiis
Mar 21 2008, 07:17 PM
Leonardo
Mar 21 2008, 07:56 AM
If you were making a skin that had a fixed width what would you put as the width? Personally I'll put 850px or so, however I'm not too sure if this is satisfying for large resolution users.

For me it would be around a 1000px but that wouldn't be fair to the users who use my skin because they might have very small resolutions. ^_^

1000px is fairly large. Hence why fluid skins are needed in this case.

And that's why I prefer them. :P
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If I'm doing a fixed width, it's probably really stylised: so it might come to 600-700 px. Though I never use pixels for fixed widths — I tend towards ems, just in case people feel the need to zoom. Usability is key (Y)
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800 to 850px. ;)
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Tue.
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I prefer fixed skins that are set in percentages instead of pixel. For example, 85% instead of 850px.
85% or 90% will makes everyone happy, big or small resolution.
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