What is a “liquid” Layout Web Design?

“Liquid Design” in the website design industrymonitors screen sizes, different screen resolutions,
means that your web page layout width expandslarger or smaller text view settings, larger or smaller
and contracts (stretches) when the browser windowbrowser buttons, additional toolbars to customize
is minimized or maximized. The alternative to a Liquidthere browsers, different browsers types or versions
webpage is a fixed width webpage which uses fixedand so on.
tables with a specified pixel width.As you can now imagine, the width and height of the
As you look at your screen now you may perceive itscreen is different from user to user. Because of this
as a fixed medium, at standard resolution, whichsome website owners prefer a Liquid design over a
never changes and everyone else on the web isfixed width design to take advantage of every
seeing web pages the same way you are, howevervisitors viewing space. Having a liquid web layout will
this isn’t always the case. For web designers theexpand and adapt itself to the available space of
monitor screen does not have fixed width or heighteach visitor viewing area.
because these variables change, at times inOther commonly used names for Liquid Web Design
unpredictable ways. People might have differentare….