New Design Opinion

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Originally Posted by TekAngel

How about the text, is the size good, easy to read? Layout O.K.?

I didn't comment on text size because I use a 800 pixel screen width, and although it looks good to me I have no idea what it looks like on a smaller monitor with a wider definition setting.

However I strongly disagree with Maj. Stress' comment "You might consider setting a definitive width for the page". Unless you are standing behind your surfer, you have no idea what size screen definition he has his computer set at, or what size window he is viewing it in. If you fix the page width too narrow, it is going to look silly with everything bunched up either on one side or in the middle of the window, and if you make it too wide, the surfer is going to have to scroll left and right. I used to assume that the only thing surfers found more annoying that that, was a mountain of pop-ups. But I was reading a (non-adult) webmaster site a few months ago, they had done a survey of surfers, and apparently given a choice of having a page wider that their screen, or a non-blockable pop-up, the majority of surfers said that they would rather have the pop-up!

Also 'setting a fixed screen width' usually comes first or second in any list of 'worst newbie mistakes' on the Internet. And my 'professional pride' stops me from doing anything that might get my site listed as an example of a 'crap newbie site'.