[Clipart] New Planet Design

[Schrijver]

Hi,

Thoughts on the planet design and the new design in general

Overal I like it, peculiar colour scheme with the shades of brown, but  
really consistent in that, so it actually gets a distinct personality

But I have one substantial gripe

> - I personally *hate* the page design with a narrow column of  
> content in
> the middle and wasted space on the sides. HTML layouts are supposed to
> be liquid and flow in the page, I didn't buy a wide screen display to
> have half of it unused;


+1

You see this fixed-width colom being in the middle all the time,
but I think that is really an awful practice,
not only do big screens get lots of empty space,
small screens can’t fit the layout, because it is fixed to a certain  
amount of pixels
Now if the CSS was done was in relative units like em not in absolute  
units like px, that would already help, so you could change the size  
yourself if you’d want to.

But couldn’t it just be flush (aligned to the) left?
The design looks as it could cope.
I could make a mockup if you’re interested?
I really like how they did it, for example at http://openlibrary.org


Eric