In this Issue...
 INTRO |
New Year, Opportunities, Success
Whew!....This year has started off with a bang.
Historically traffic slows from mid-December to
mid-January. This year it appears there is no
hesitation by customers to get their projects
started. It seems everyone is ready
for the New Year, New Opportunities, and New
Success!
Don't they say that challenges are nothing more than
opportunities in disguise? Well, I agree with them.
Plus, I would add that those hidden opportunities
generate new challenges that when overcome result in
success. Now, let's see if we can make that come
true.
PixelMill is fortunate to have a number of existing
and brewing opportunities that will allow us to
deliver new and compelling products and support
materials that should help you overcome those
opportunity-created challenges in your own business.
Stay tuned as the coming months will bring new
announcements about these new products and
solutions.
All these big words and new, new, new....make me
sounds like a dot-com hype machine. I'll back-off
now and get to the nuts and bolts of this
newsletter. This month, we feature an article that
looks at the difference between fixed width and
fluid sites. This seems to be one of the most
popular requests we receive from customers. Each has
their own personal preference on which is better.
Personally, I think the best option is the one that
best meets your customer's needs. That's often a tough
question. We also introduce you to a valuable
collection of Presentation Templates for PowerPoint.
These are fresh off the presses from our leading
PowerPoint product developer team. Plus, you can use
any of them and convert them to Flash for easy web
viewing, by using PowerCONVERTER with our 10%
discount under our Special Offers in the right
column.
Don't miss our new blogs summarized in the right
column. Our blogs are a growing source of resources
and may often be the first place we announce new
products, solutions, and opportunities. Use our
syndication feeds to stay informed of updates.
PixelMill wishes you the best for 2006, and many New
Opportunities and New Successes.
by Jason Reckers, PixelMill
 FEATURE |
Fixed Width or Liquid Sites?
When developing a web site, one of the initial
considerations is whether to use a fixed-width
layout or a liquid layout.
Fixed-width layouts, as the term suggests, are
sites where the main content area of the layout and
design has a static pixel width. One example of a
fixed-width site is
www.redenvelope.com. While the content area does
remain in the center of the browser window when the
browser window is resized, the actual width of the
content area does not change.
Figure 1.
www.redenvelope.com layout
remains the same width no matter how large or small
the browser window is.
Liquid layouts describe sites where the entire
layout of the site stretches or shrinks to fill the
entire browser window when the browser window is
resized. One example of a liquid site is
www.amazon.com. While the left and right columns
have the same width, the center content area resizes
and flexes according to the width of the browser
window.
Figure 2.
www.amazon.com layout fills the entire
screen as the browser window is resized.
Read the rest of this article...
by Corrie Haffly, PixelMill Staff Writer
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