Can be done, sure, but to keep the layout nice and tidy, it's rather hard to do, especially if you're not dealing with one layout, but a general layout designer like Artisteer. The only solution (as in traditional press typography!) to have multi-column layout, which is rather complicated to do for the web. Also it's unreadable, when you have lines longer than a certain length. 1, When you have a nice well-designed layout with non-repeating backgrounds, fluid layout might cause undesirable effects. I agree with Marc, there are 2 reasons against the fluid layout. But the lack thereof did not stop me from purchasing, and would not have at all. I too would love to see fluid as part of the mix. It is simply a fixed width with a "fluid" background. this means that ALL sections of the design are fluid, not just the background as in the example supplied earlier. And by fluid widths, lets make sure we clarify.
I think there is a strong desire for fluid width layouts. This is one of the most commented posts I have seen on this board. Please don't discourage them through mis-information.
#Artisteer fluid width how to#
I have an advantage of longevity on the web and I know how to clean up the bloated CSS that it generates, and I do it when needed. Having said that, I want to let you know that you are a fantastic asset to this forum, and I have found plenty of your input helpful. So I have to say that your comments in this case were disingenuous. ( yes, with XHTML and CSS.) It's actually a bit more difficult and takes more code to create a fixed-width website than a fluid-width using XHTML and CSS.
I still build fluid-width sites for my clients who desire them, and they conform to 'standards'. ( I know, I was there, and I literally have a t-shirt.) Fluid-width was the original 'web standard', and actually the only game in town unless you used tables to constrain your content. Marc, I don't know how old you are, but fluid-width websites go back to the beginning of the World Wide Web.
I cannot believe that this would an issue for people to NOT buy this product or even want to return it. Fluid widths, while nice, are not 'web standard' yet.
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