Comments on: Fluid Blog Themes versus Fixed Width Themes.

By: Darran

Darran — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:10:47 +0000

I am using a fluid theme and I do disagree with what is being said about fluid themes about not being able to capture the reader’s attention. I have had visitors viewing from resolutions as high as 1900px for the width and there have been no complaints thus far. It is important to actually define how much you want your sidebar to occupy. I always set the content area to have 80% and my sidebar 20% so that there is always a proportion in which users are viewing the site.

By: Wayne Liew

Wayne Liew — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:29:13 +0000

This posts of yours really opened my mind on this. Last time when I go on search for a theme, I always wanted a fluid theme, which is very difficult to find by that time.

After switching over to Wordpress, I nearly go for a fluid theme but there’s some bug with the theme. At the end, I settled myself with the current fixed theme.

After reading your posts, I guess I am satisfied with what I have now.

By: Danny Foo

Danny Foo — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:17:48 +0000

Well, that is why a well planned layout (theme or template) is very crucial to any blog or commercial website. By planning ahead of what is required, we understand better how to take advantage of fluid layouts.

For example; if you had a portal packed with loads of information then having a fluid layout is a benefit. Especially if the information is broken down into several columns.

For blogs, a fixed layout normally works well enough. Besides, it was born with only 2-columns.

But fluid can get out of hand. If you have a 30″ monitor or LCD TV then it’ll stretch too far. That is why it should normally be constrained by a max-width.

Ultimately, it’s all about planning and understanding before executing…especially to me and Simpleet.