Time to start build wider sites?

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

If we did start building to the next size up, what changes would need to be made? Font sizes would need to be set larger for legibility. How about thumb sizes? Should we increase those, and how is that going to affect bandwidth?

While I don't think that (auto-magically?) adjusting thumb sizes was considered, there's some excellent information on the www.evolt.org site regarding Liquid Design that might be worth applying to free site building.

"Liquid Design for the Web"

There's a lot to be said for using layouts that don't care what size resolution someone is using, or whether they've pulled their window smaller for some reason.