Screen Resolution and Page Layout (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
The devil can cite scripture for his own purpose... and now I can cite Nielsen: "...use a liquid layout that stretches well for any resolution, from 800x600 to 1280x1024."
Resolution vs. browser size vs. fixed or adaptive width | 456 Berea Street
Roger hits the nail on the head: "fixed widths are used for the wrong reason - designer vanity. Come on, you’re designing for the Web, which means it’s your job to let things be flexible when you can."
Related links
CSS Beauty | Designer in Action
I've been suckered into another debate on fixed width layouts: "Discussing whether 800 is better than 1024 is like discussing whether Coke is better than Pepsi when all you really want is a nice drink of water."
Experimenting with responsive design in Iterations - (37signals)
37 Signals document their experiments with responsive web design. Looking good.
Liquid Designs
This is something I always meant to do but never got around to: a gallery site for good liquid design.
Matthias Ott – Painting With the Web – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 20025 - YouTube
A great talk by Matthias on what you can do with web standards today!
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New Year’s Resolution
Liquid layouts… no, wait, come back!
Fixtorati
Technorati redesigns in a rigid kind of way.