Switched To Fixed Width Layout
CEans with wider screens 😉
You might have noticed that we've just switched to a fixed width layout for our forums. This is one big design related decision we've taken since the birth of CE. CE Forums have always been fluid width (that is, forum occupies all the available browser real estate). So why this change now?
Well, first of all - we need to make sure that CE browsing experience is uniform across all the browsers and screen sizes. Second, we've a fixed width layout on our blog and we're currently making sure that everything looks uniform throughout the site.
Fixed width is better for eyes!
Analytics shows that a large number of our visitors have wider monitors. On wider monitors, it's not a pleasing experience to read wider lines. Fixed width helps us solve that problem and it's much easier to read narrower, fixed-width blocks of text.
But that said, we're aware that fixed width does not suit everyone. We might just provide an option to our users to select fluid width on individual basis.
