Tony
tony23.no@dslextreme.com.spam wrote in
<11dt4qso9reqia4@corp.supernews.com>:
> Chris Burkill wrote:
> <...>
> > Pages that seem OK to those who write them, and who want to cover all
> > resolutions of screens, are a total pain to Mr/Mrs Average - who
> > co-incidentally is the guy/guyess you actually want on your website -
> > again and again and again.
>
> Which, ultimately, is what it all boils down to: What is the opinion of the
> AVERAGE user of the site.
>
> I brought up the discussion because I see most "experts" saying fixed-width
> design is bad, that you should allow for varying screen sizes. But frankly,
> I never hear that from the end-user.
>
Of course you don't. What you need to ask the end user is whether the site
is convenient to use on their system, they are only concerned about that.
In order to get a proper idea of how effective it is you need to do a
proper survey of a ranger of users with different systems, sampling only
the people who actually use the site means that you won't get the opinion
of the people who found it inconvenient.
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eric
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