| “Liquid Design” in the website design industry | | | | monitors screen sizes, different screen resolutions, |
| means that your web page layout width expands | | | | larger or smaller text view settings, larger or smaller |
| and contracts (stretches) when the browser window | | | | browser buttons, additional toolbars to customize |
| is minimized or maximized. The alternative to a Liquid | | | | there browsers, different browsers types or versions |
| webpage is a fixed width webpage which uses fixed | | | | and 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 it | | | | screen is different from user to user. Because of this |
| as a fixed medium, at standard resolution, which | | | | some website owners prefer a Liquid design over a |
| never changes and everyone else on the web is | | | | fixed width design to take advantage of every |
| seeing web pages the same way you are, however | | | | visitors viewing space. Having a liquid web layout will |
| this isn’t always the case. For web designers the | | | | expand and adapt itself to the available space of |
| monitor screen does not have fixed width or height | | | | each visitor viewing area. |
| because these variables change, at times in | | | | Other commonly used names for Liquid Web Design |
| unpredictable ways. People might have different | | | | are…. |