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Looking for a "liquid" designer...

by DavidO
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... who can build me a landing page with liquid width and height using percentages. Here's a mock-up of what I'm trying to achieve:

http://www.control-your-blood-pressu.../bg_draft2.jpg

Of course that image is supposed to fill the screen. This is way beyond my coding skills... in fact, I don't even know if it's possible. The widths are easy to set at 100% but getting the relative heights right, especially with the "footer" is a challenge. Or maybe it's easier than I think!

I wrote to 4 different designers advertising in "Warriors For Hire" and didn't get a single reply. There must be a lot of work around... either that or they didn't like the look of my project!

I'd love to hear from anyone who can do this for me. Thanks for any suggestions!
#designer #liquid
  • Profile picture of the author indexphp
    when you say you want it to be a liquid template, is their any reason for it? coding something like that out wouldn't take me more than 1 hour tops
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    • Profile picture of the author DavidO
      I was thinking it would be more difficult. But if you can do it easily that's great.

      This will be a landing page that connects to the rest of the site. I still need to figure out the best way to link it, but that's not a big problem.

      As for why, it's just something I want to try in place of the usual sales page look. The imagery and limited text is perfect for my product.

      Speaking of text, this will have to resize also. I know you can't make everything perfect but it needs to look pretty accurate on different screens.

      PM me with a price if you want to do it for me. It could lead into more because the whole site will need revising as it goes along.
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  • Profile picture of the author Richard Whyte
    DavidO

    Most people are moving away from this type of thing. A fixed width gives you much more control of how your information and images are formatted on the screen.

    If you use percentages, then you have not idea how it is going to look. I had a very wide monitor and someone else may be on a *00X600 PX monitor. With the page written in percentages for widths, the layout on my wide monitor is going to have sentences that are way too long and will look like $%#&

    And images are not adjustable. they have a set Width and Height. You can place them on the page and control how text "wraps" around them, but again when you have someone with different sized monitors looking at it, it once again will look like crap.

    Better to use a fixed width template that matches the width of the banner you want at the top of the page with the text flowing below.

    Hope that helps you....

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    • Profile picture of the author DavidO
      I appreciate your feedback, Richard. Is there a way to achieve a similar look with fixed dimensions?

      I've seen some great designs using large background images, which put me on to this idea.

      I'm just so tired of cookie-cutter website design where every site looks the same. I want to be more imaginative. Of course, that's not a good thing on an ecommerce site but this is not my sales page.
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  • Profile picture of the author pollock22
    Hi Mate,

    I am interested to do your project. We have number of good designer who are working on different type of project.

    You can send me more details of project on my business ID info @addonsolutions.com
    Kindly see more details about us at www[dot]addonsolutions[dot]com

    I am looking for your reply.
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  • Profile picture of the author phpbbxpert
    I would have to agree with Richard, full width on this is not a good idea.

    On my 22" monitor it is already looking distorted and low res.

    I would do something like Fix-fluid
    Setting a max-width and centering it.
    This will allow it to be fluid to that point and would look good on all monitor sizes.
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  • Profile picture of the author RichardHK
    +1 on phpbbxpert above.

    Use a fluid design with a max-width set, and possibly a min-width too.

    I also hate these fixed-width designs that are seemingly the norm. Don't have to follow the crowd.
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    • Profile picture of the author ScottAnderson
      Hrmmm.. Well, you have 2 aspects. Coding and Design. You can have a very nice design using a "liquid" background and a fixed with content area - there's your coding part. Then to put the some design on it - that's the creative part and where web designers come into play. Send me a PM after you look at my work and we can talk from there.

      check it here
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