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What attracts me to fixed width is the sense of composition when it's well done. Here's 3 sites to illustrate my point:
gift from grandmaJust two girlsfv shoppesI think for a site that doesn't need a forum, news and all the other modules available to Xoops, you can really be creative with fixed width for the simple reason that you know exactly what your designing for.
There is another interesting point of view to this discussion that I was confronted with the other day:
I created a site for a client using XOOPS with the standard modules, photos, news, forum, events. Although design wise I only did some small changes to the basic theme of Xoops, it was a hugh step forward compared to the clients previous site. His colaborators and employees loved the site, but, he thought it was too complicated. Although he does use a computer, he is not tech savey. So this left me wondering; is there such a thing as presenting TOO MUCH information on the initial page? Would this be a turn off to the average joe?
Lenny