admin
04-25-2007, 02:30 PM
Now, you may have noticed that this change: the board no longer expands to the width of your screen - the width is constant.
Here is why I decided on this:
1. I'm going to be redesigning bisonville.com to more closely integrate with the forums (e.g. the pages are going to have the same color scheme and some of the same elements - like a menu bar across the top). As part of this, I set the width of the forums to be what the width of the rest of bisonville.com is going to be.
2. I noticed that a lot of sites seem to do the same thing (and heck, they must have reasons). ESPN, CNN, etc have a fixed width and start at the left - the Fargo Forum and a lot of other news sites have a fixed width but put stuff in the center.
3. Everybody sees the same thing (if I have the width shrink or grow depending on the type of display people use, then that makes the design of certain things harder).
However, the old bison board and AGS fill the screen and I can see why people might like that better.
Here is why I decided on this:
1. I'm going to be redesigning bisonville.com to more closely integrate with the forums (e.g. the pages are going to have the same color scheme and some of the same elements - like a menu bar across the top). As part of this, I set the width of the forums to be what the width of the rest of bisonville.com is going to be.
2. I noticed that a lot of sites seem to do the same thing (and heck, they must have reasons). ESPN, CNN, etc have a fixed width and start at the left - the Fargo Forum and a lot of other news sites have a fixed width but put stuff in the center.
3. Everybody sees the same thing (if I have the width shrink or grow depending on the type of display people use, then that makes the design of certain things harder).
However, the old bison board and AGS fill the screen and I can see why people might like that better.