What are cons to make site with Liquid layouts?

Question

In Terms of

• Development
• Maintenance
• Accessibility
• Usability
• Readability
• Print-ability

Answer 1

It all depends on how "Liquid" you make it.

Personally I like to make the length liquid but have everything wrapped in a static container div.

The key is going to be to "Code to your audience." If what you are using will work fine in a completely liquid layout (forums are a good example of this) and that's the way you want to go, great. (Just make sure you use the clear:both; attribute of css to prevent things from going beside each other.)

Development: only con is that you have to make sure things don't start moving it weird places.

Maintenance: Can be a pain because weird things can happen.

Accessibility: Depends on how good you are at making said layout. It can work very well or not well at all.

Usability: Shouldn't be a big deal.

Readability: Ahh, here's the tricky one. because people use different screen sizes this one can get really weird. (I use a 42" tv as my main monitor so pages that go 95% of the screen suck.) I personally like to have a set width because people will (hopefully) be logging on the place from more than one computer. a set width provides consistency between different screen sizes.

Printability: Shouldn't be a problem at all.