[Sigia-l] Website centered or not?

[Stewart Anderson]

One pro (for centre alignment rather than left alignment) is that is  
places content physically closer to the RHS. This means that, if the  
user uses scroll bars to navigate long pages, the mouse has less  
distance to travel before they can scroll the page.

Obviously this is less relevant when your users have scroll wheel  
mouses, use the keyboard to navigate, the site doesnt have scrolling  
pages etc.

Other than that, I can't think of any pros or cons except to advocate  
fluid layouts where possible - within reason so the column width  
doesn't become so large that it make scanning difficult.

-S


On 8 Feb 2007, at 21:06, oblio wrote:

> Are their any opinions, thoughts or studies behind whether websites  
> should or shouldn't be centered into the browser window?
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> With thanks,
> Peter
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