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"Pages are poorly laid out. This one is so common! Multiple frames that are too small for their contents, requiring lots of scrolling. Columns of text that flow into strange places. And let us not forget tables that spill off the sides of the screen, large page-top banners that contain nothing useful, but force you to scroll down the page - and so much more! Poor layouts are often the result when the person designing the site uses a very high-resolution screen to do the layout, but does not anticipate what the site will look like at a lower resolution." (1)
"Because there is no way of knowing how large a screen your users have, you should design for all screen resolutions - in other words, resolution-independent pages that adapt to whatever size screen they are displayed on. The main principle for resolution-independent design is to never use a fixed pixel-width for any tables, frames, or other design elements (except possible for thin stripes down the side of the page). Instead of using fixed sizes, you should specify layouts as percentages of the available space." (3, pg. 29)