i've spent the past couple days redoing the layouts of this blog and another site for more fluidity. it's something that i wanted to do before but i wasn't sure exactly what i wanted to achieve in terms of layout satisfaction for both high and low resolution screens. it's the endless debate for designers i suppose or novices who make websites and care about that sort of thing. what i had previously was a set size whose only fluidity was that it was centered and the extra margins would contract/expand accordingly. ooooh, big deal, that's not fluid! what i have now is something that looks fine for people who still have their monitors set to 800x600 but also expands for those with better eyesight, including widescreens. go ahead, try it, spread your browser window as wide as you dare. it shouldn't look too bad. except of course if you go really, really wide (fuck you people who can afford super widescreens) and some of my small thumbnail newspaper-like graphics become larger than the text paragraph they are a part of, causing minor layout havoc.