What Is A Fluid Layout?

fixed page layout, or a fluid page layout? anybody ever hear about this? how do i make my site with the fluid page layout?

a fluid web page layout is when a page contracts and expands horizontally inside a persons web browser despite the size of the browser window or the resolution of the monitor. it works well but it is most effective when you sniff out the size of the user's screen size and give them a css file containing appropriate sized fonts and background images (otherwise things can get really stretched out looking).

when i create a fluid page layout i use tables, and i place everything into one main table. that main table is listed with a % width and not a fixed width (example...width=90% instead of width=760). using the % means that the table will only take up 90% of the width of the browser window. off course the ability to shrink is also affected by the width of the graphics that are placed on the page as well.

sorry if i didn't explain it very well, but if you need a better example or some help making one just let me know.

Ahh the fluid layout, its not worth it, unless your getting paid mega bucks for it dont! i had to do the html for label link it was a bloody pain in the arse to get that to work in both IE and NS 4.7, i was going nutz, it took me about 5hours just for the html of the front page! which is ages for me, considering i made a entire site (for a CS clan) within 2hours.

ok, enought with my bitchin. if you really need to, your going have to use tables inside of other tables, to get it aligned. i suggest making a BG about 1600x1200 in gif to save some work, since the gif file will only be about 7-10kb, very small concidering the amount of html to do the same effect.

i hope this hasnt put you off the idea

i was just asking i wasn't gonna implement it on my site

After reading the explanation on fluid page layout, the fluid page layout is the best choice, am I right? I do nt understand what information trying to passed by Ben Rowe, Could you explain further, especially
Thanks in advance.

check out URL its a static site i did

the front page is a fluid layout, notice if you resize your browser it moves around to place everything in the right spot???? thats what causes the problems. its very hard to make a fluid layout that works in both IE and NS(4.7) so unless your getting paid to make a site dont bother. the stress it causes, is not worth it

Most everything about making a fluid layout is cross-browser in NS and IE. It's really not that difficult if you design the page structure (tables, etc) to be fluid. On the other hand, if you are working from a design comp that has not taken into account the end-result table structure or implementation, it can be very challenging (and so can lesser problems in that case).

In general, if you break up your page into seperate tables (which is good practice anyway due to rendering speed) and no try to put them all in one table or nest many levels deep, you should be able to acheve a fluid design fairly easily.

Almost all of my site designs are fluid - check out www. dgibson.net and www.metalunderground.com.