Fluid design ... always?

[Kate <kate -at- pulpculture -dot- org>]

Hiya!

Speaking of blogs.... :)

We've been working on CSS layouts for awhile. When we send the sites for 
critique at all the usual HTML/CSS, particularly ALT.html.critique (which 
Bonnie Granat's a big fan of), sites, we've been told that we should be 
using fluid designs. Blogs typically use them so that the page stretches 
across the screen.

But, one thing many clients utterly hate is a site that stretches across 
the screen making the line lengths too long for ease of reading. I agree, 
coming from a publishing industry background. It doesn't make any sense if 
the point is to develop a site that people will read, why make it hard to 
read?


What are the thoughts on it here?

Thanks,

Kate



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