For awhile, I’ve been annoyed that this WordPress theme (“Rin“, slightly modified) doesn’t use the full width of my browser window. It seemed like most themes do that – pick a certain width and stick to it, I’d imagine for reasons of “consistency” or more likely “easier to develop the theme like that than worry about scaling with width”. I guess the fixed vs. relative debate will continue to rage, but consider me square in the “relative” camp, even if others consider that heresy. Yes, liquid/fluid/relative (lots of names, same thing) is harder to do
I’ve been checking the entries at the WordPress 1.5 theme competition blog using their theme browser. My requirement was something that used the full (or close to the full) width of the browser and scaled relatively well with varying widths.
I haven’t made a “final” decision as of yet, but here are the ones that made the “must scale with width” cut and the relative score I gave them (descending).
Any thoughts? Any convincing “here’s why fixed really is the right choice” sage advice? (outside of ideal line length arguments, which I’m already familiar with.
- Travelogue
- Very clean, nice smoothness, 9.0
- Journalized Blue/Sand/Winter
- Nice layout, but a little blocky – hmm 8.5
- man~ja
- Nice, but a little sparse 8.5
- Sharepoint like
- Nice colors, clean, Category (and others) in Russian 8.5
- Operate
- Not bad, need to scale down the left bar 7.0
- Yaaarr! Tis me blog!
- Funny, decent colors, 7.0
- Gentle calm
- Good colors, wasted space? small font 7.0
- Safety
- Smooth, but iffy colors 6.0
- Sixties
- Too many pastels 5.0
- Slashdot
- Too Slashdot-like 🙂 5.0
- SimpleGreen
- Bad colors 4.0
- anarchy
- blocky, bad colors 3.0
- Curtains up
- blocky, bad colors 3.0
- pumpkin
- Bad colors 3.0
- RadMod
- Blocky, bad colors 3.0