Web site formats
Before you purchase a web template you must decide if you want a website with fixed width or flexible ("floating" or "liquid") width.
There are very strong opinions on both sides. Naturally, there are good reasons for and against each approach.
Remember that monitors vary in size and resolution from small 15-inch to really big and wide monsters.
If you choose a layout with fixed width your web pages will look exactly the same no matter how large the monitor is, but viewed on large screens part of the screen will be white (or whatever else you choose as background color).
A flexible layout will completely fill the screen from left to right with no white space, but due to the very nature of a flexible layout your pages will look different on different monitors.
We recommend that you choose to build a website with a fixed width of 900-920 pixels. The page you are reading right now is 900 pixels wide.
This size will be perfect for monitors with 1024 x 768 pixels, and your pages will look the same no matter how wide the viewers monitors are.
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When you have decided on the format of your site it's time to find a web template.