Standard page widths - why?
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- Simon Bloomer
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Just to satisfy my curiosity around the design of most (if not all) RT styles.
Is there any specific reason to have chosen the standard widths you have for the pages, rather than making them slightly wider, or indeed even fluid.
It seems to me in the days of bigger and higher resolution screens, there is a bit of wasted space in the RT design. Dont get me wrong, I like the RT styles, and they're well developed, and I'm the last guy to ask for an over-the-top messy website, but I could just use about 10-15% extra width, especially for my phpBB site. - Joomla 1.5 and phpBB 3.0.8
Data Architect pretending to be a web developer with little understanding of CSS and HTML, so be nice
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- Cliff Pfeifer
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Hi, there are ways to make it happen if you really want to dig into the code. The reason most of the designs are 960px is that the Gantry Framework is based on the 960 Grid system. The number 960 is divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,8,12 ECT. Meaning it's way easier to create uniform sections, sidebars, division ECT. It's a fairly common thing to see with web design these days, it's just easier to work with.
Plus we have to consider smaller monitor sizes, 960 fits on mobile devices and old school 1024 monitors. Not everyone has the latest and greatest, so taking smaller monitor sizes into account is important. - The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.
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