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January 2, 2007• (0) Comments
Red Sky at Night has a new do. I’m not sure how long I’ll keep it, but the old two-column design was mostly a sop to you Luddites with the 800×600 screens and paleolithic browsers.
I indulged you for a couple of years while prices for HUGE LCD-panel displays fell faster than tube tops at a biker rally. It’s time to move on.
A few years ago, when web design savants (read: unemployed Canadians) were whining about usability and showing off fixed-width layouts targeting least-common denominator readers, it seemed almost criminal to put up any page that needed more than 773 pixels of horizontal real estate.
Sure, we futzed around with liquid and elastic layouts and did a lot of conjuring with em-based units and JavaScript property swaps, but commercial work was stuck in that 800 pixel worldview. Most of it still is.