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Ten Questions for Richard RutterRichard Rutter is a web site producer living in Brighton and working in London for Multimap. He also runs his own weblog where he shares his personal perspectives on Web development and design, accessibility, usability and information architecture.
[1] Russ: Your blog is a very successful 3 column liquid layout. Even in an extremely wide browser window content seems comfortably readable. How was this achieved?
Richard: I'm a big believer in liquid layouts. I believe liquid layout is more appropriate to a Web where known variants include screen resolution and window size. Those designing for the Web as a medium know their designs must work for any (reasonable) text size so why not any window width? I would hazard a guess that more visitors would know how to change window size than text size.
One of the problems cited against liquid designs is that lines of text can become unreadably long. I counter this in my blog by putting plenty of leading in the text (typographer's terminology for setting line-height to 1.5em). Spacing apart lines of text in this manner helps readers keep track of which line they are reading, and which to read next.
More important to the text layout is a technique I call concertina padding. Each of the three columns on my blog has a width set as a percentage of the window width.
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