Lately, I've been thinking about website layouts. I will never like layouts that have a set width. I don't care how artistic it is. In the end, it's about the content. If I have to scroll down the page to read while having half my horizontal space empty, I won't like it.

There have been guidelines and tips about how your content should appear in the browser window without the user having to scroll. So how does that work when you reduce the available space? This is even more true now with wide screen monitors.

So take a look at the item page for this posting. If your browser window is wide, you'll see these words on the left and information, including links to the previous and next items, on the right. If you make the window narrower, the information moves below this text. This may seem ugly at first, but think about it. It means that people with large screens have less wasted space and don't have to scroll up and down as much. And, if someone has a small window, the chance of them having to scroll left and right is reduced.

The internet is not paper. You do not have set dimensions that everything must fit within. If your information is dynamic, then why isn't your layout?