What percentage do you use for fluid width?

[anotheralias]

I use 90% because that's what my first board was set at out of the box, but to me it takes up a ridiculous amount of space on a wide screen. Is that still the norm?

----edit----

I meant fluid, I'm sorry!

 

[Paul B]

I use 992px as that is the largest width possible with the site still being displayed correctly on a 1024px screen.

 

[jmurrayhead]

I use 90% because that's what my first board was set at out of the box, but to me it takes up a ridiculous amount of space on a wide screen. Is that still the norm?

You mean fluid layout? Using a percentage as the unit of measure isn't a fixed width, rather, a fluid/relative layout.

 

[Shadab]

Isn't that a contradiction?
If you use a % for your layout width, it would be a fluid layout, not fixed.

PS: I love 980px.

 

[CTXMedia]

I use 992px as that is the largest width possible with the site still being displayed correctly on a 1024px screen.

Same here.

 

[-GR-]

90% would be a fluid width and not a fixed width. I normally set fixed width at 980px but now that Brogan mentioned 992px I might have to give that a try.

I like fluid width to some extent but when you have a monitor larger then 20" it gets hard to follow text paragraphs and it also makes laying out articles with pictures difficult to work on all monitors and resolutions.

 

[Lawrence]

I normally use fixed width. My last site was 884px wide as it used a lot of graphics that needed to be in absolute positions.

 

[-GR-]

Remember the days of 780px?

 

[Shelley]

Style I'm currently working on is fixed at 960px.

*reads thread title and looks stumped* Percentage used on fixed widths?

 

[CTXMedia]

Remember the days of 780px?

It wasn't that long ago was it?

At least we didn't have to design for 640 x 480 ...

 

[Paul B]

Uh-oh, wait until Dragonfly sees this thread...

 

[-GR-]

Uh-oh, wait until Dragonfly sees this thread...

LOL, maybe we can steer it back to the other thread for fluid width

 

[-GR-]

It wasn't that long ago was it?

At least we didn't have to design for 640 x 480 ...

I guess it wasn't that long ago. I still can't believe how many people still use a 15 or 17" CRT monitor on 800x600.

ugh, 640px... I don't even want to think about it

 

[Shelley]

Uh-oh, wait until Dragonfly sees this thread...

I actually had a hatred for fixed widths but I thought i would develop a fixed width derived from mjps thread and they really aren't that bad. I guess the last time I used it I had to compensate for those 800x600 users that most probably put me off fixed solutions.

 

[Jaxel]

I use 990px myself.

 

[Peggy]

I have always designed fluid styles, due to the many different width monitors, and varying resolutions.
That said, my new forum is fixed, set at 980 I believe.

 

[Kim]

Uh-oh, wait until Dragonfly sees this thread...

 

[anotheralias]

Oh damn, I did mean fluid, could a Mod please change the title? But thanks for all the fixed-width answers, that's good information too.

 

[Paul B]

Hehe, that changes the whole context of the thread.

Title edited as requested.

 

[Peggy]

Well alrighty then. When I design for fluid width, it's usually 90%.