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Less is more – the smaller, the better
While prototyping the front-end architecture for one project I am working on, I am starting to consider that I should design the pages considering 800px as maximum resolution (so, the page width, will be around 760 px, to be sure that scrollbars and border lines will be included).
Why 800px and not 1024px? Why not fixed layout? Here are my reasons:
- The layout is going to be minimalistic. The page is not going to contain a lot of text and boxes. Less is more, as always
- No fixed layout, otherwise the information on the page would be too spread out and would be too difficult to focus the user attention if the screen is pretty wide
- 800px is becoming the standard resolutions in many mobile browser. Even the ones that support larger resolutions have a better user experience when the width of the page is contained. Twitter has a 800 pixels fixed layout as well, and I think this has been a key factor of its success.
There is nothing bad in having larger blank vertical stripes on the side of the page, as long as now we can easily focus the user attention on what we want
