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However, the flexible-width columns in this page don't really let you do much unless the page is
quite wide. Here's what happens at various web browser window widths:
1000 pixel window or wider —All features available; no visual degradation of page layout.
Window 884-1000 pixels wide —Crucial central editing area and buttons partly covered by the
right column.
Window 884 pixels wide or less —Blowout! (See Figure 3.2.) Graphics and text in the middle
column are forced down into the editing area.
The layout of the page in Figure 3.2 leaves you no useful additional screen area on a 1280-pixel
wide screen and just barely fits on another common laptop resolution, 1024×768. Although the flexi-
ble-width columns seem to give you flexibility, they actually just tempt you to narrow the window
below the point where the editing area really works.
Ironically, the solution to this problem is to switch to Full-Screen mode for editing, and then narrow
the window to use it alongside another document or web browser window. Unfortunately, the but-
ton that turns on Full-Screen mode is one of the first ones to be covered over by the right column
when you narrow the window.
Figure 3.2
Minor blowouts
can happen even
in the best-
planned pages
(see center,
under
“Permalink”).
The upshot of this brief case study is that you should think about how your blog visitors are going
to use your blog, and then choose your theme accordingly. Blog content is inherently flexible in its
space requirements—does your theme encourage your blog to be used flexibly?
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