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Originally Posted by shalym
Radius, I'm curious as to why you wouldn't use your browser maximized? (Although to me, it still doesn't look good when I look at it with the window set to half of the size of the screen)
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Hi Shari, I don't maximize the browser window just because I don't want to cover up everything else on the screen.
Well, that and because I think it's the "wrong" shape for reading anything. I think someone quoted earlier in the thread that a line should optimally be a certain number of characters across. That is true in that lines which are very long horizontally seem to be harder for my eyes to track after a certain point.
But more than that, I just seem to prefer a block which is taller than it is wide. I have no idea whether that's just conditioning from a lifetime of reading books in that shape or whether there is a physical or psychological reason for it.
Furthermore, I could see your point if Marius' page was covered up by a big banner ad on top followed by the title and a boring stock photo, then further obscured by a sidebar of links and so on, reducing the initial readable area to a tiny box "above the fold". But in this particular case, I think the title and custom image serve as kind of a book cover or title page.
Myabe I would feel differently if it was taking up all of my monitor as it seems to do for you
