Forum:Fixed or variable width?

Hey guys, long time no talk. I've been recently asked if we wanted to switch to a full-screen width format, rather than the fixed width we have currently (and which is legacy view).

Full-screen width example:

http://eternity.gamepedia.com/Main_Page

Although I used to be an advocate of fixed width settings, owing to the ease of working with it, I'm now partial to switching to the full-screen width, as it will accommodate our increasing amount of text and high resolution images. It will also help us develop an unique visual identity (for now it's too similar in general layout to when we were hosted on Wikia) and allow us to move the square add off to the right panel, together with gamepedia blocks.

Thoughts? I'd like to get this decided soon. Tagaziel (talk) 17:42, 19 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I don't know about the widths, but less content crushing corner ad would be best.--Ant2242 (talk) 17:48, 19 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm fine with a switch. Maybe it'll fix a few of the annoyances we've been having with some infoboxes that push content down and leave a big block of nothing? Shadowrunner(stuff) 18:11, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

I would be only happy if we switch to more "progressive" layout. But as far as I can see on the Eternity Wiki, full-screen width has some issues there.



If we avoid such issues, I'm only happy to switch. veryblackraven 18:19, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Isn't the infobox push from that GD ad?--Ant2242 (talk) 18:27, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Before there were three edit conflicts, I had the same sentiment as Shadowrunner and VBR. I'm all for getting the ads out of the content, but, while making the pages full screen could be helpful for the longer pages (e.g. BoS, Enclave, New California, etc), it could be detrimental to the shorter articles. With the wider pages, the infobox may unattractively extend past the text (e.g. Government Accountability Office or Jenny Millet; there are probably better examples, but that's all that came to mind) I, for one, think a low "infobox:text ratio" is unpleasant and should be avoided. --Kastera (talk) 18:28, 19 January 2014 (UTC)