Making the leap to wider layouts!
It looks like the leash is comin' off!
With all your favourite sites starting to move over to a wider page layout, Wiseguy is more than happy to follow suit. After all we have been waiting years for it and so has the rest of the world of online design. A simple step up from 760 pixels to 960 pixels is all it takes...
Thank you BBC, Amazon (US), Facebook, newspapers and all you other market leaders for taking the brave step to widen your websites. Although quite a few sites have been using wide formats for years, we've been good here and stuck to the best solution for the general Internet user base. But now it looks as though the times are-a-changin' and enough people have shifted onto a minimum of 1024px X 768px monitors to merit us all changing our designs.
It's amazing what you can achieve with a few hundred extra pixels and it brings some of the disciplines of print design closer to the web. It's great to now be able to consider a column or grid structure for a site and to be able to have enough space to make individual pages look and feel more "designed". Wider site layouts also seem to be more engaging, perhaps due to the availability of content in the users browser and maybe as they seem a bit more "complete". I guess that's because I have been used to viewing sites in a little strip down the middle of my monitor for years, to ensure that people on tiny resolution monitors could still read the site, but now that blank void is more filled?!?
Well, at least we can all now enjoy the benefits and hopefully the doors of design can widen even more.
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