I’m curious. I’ve always done sites with center alignment for the page and it seems that most people do. But am I wrong about that? Who here goes with left alignment? What are the pros and cons these days of using either approach?
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On Jun 3, 2010, at 6:09 AM, LauraB wrote:
Who here goes with left alignment?
I go with left alignment for no particular design reason. It just seems
simple and easy.
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Hi Laura
I’d go center alignment. I just feel the page looks neater and balanced when displayed.
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Once in a while I toy with the idea of going left-aligned. Like Richard, I like the idea of not sweating the details associated with center alignment. But I’m drawn to the balance of center as well.
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Left alignment is more readable than center alignment. With center
alignment the reader’s eye has to struggle to find the beginning of
each line. Centering everything is very formal and is used by people
who know nothing about design. Use left alignment but also use a
margin to get it away from the left side of the page. Alignment
doesn’t mean the everything is aligned along the same edge. Everything
should have the same alignment. Don’t mixed left with centered and
right alignment on your web page; it looks too amateurish and messy.
Brian
On Jun 3, 2010, at 9:09 AM, LauraB wrote:
I’m curious. I’ve always done sites with center alignment for the
page and it seems that most people do. But am I wrong about that?
Who here goes with left alignment? What are the pros and cons these
days of using either approach?Laura
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It sound like Brian’s talking about text centre alignment rather than
the actual website alignment.
I normally go for centre, just because it keeps the browser window
looking equal, but I’m a nerd.
On 4 Jun 2010, at 14:25, Brian Revere wrote:
Left alignment is more readable than center alignment. With center
alignment the reader’s eye has to struggle to find the beginning of
each line. Centering everything is very formal and is used by people
who know nothing about design. Use left alignment but also use a
margin to get it away from the left side of the page. Alignment
doesn’t mean the everything is aligned along the same edge.
Everything should have the same alignment. Don’t mixed left with
centered and right alignment on your web page; it looks too
amateurish and messy.Brian
On Jun 3, 2010, at 9:09 AM, LauraB wrote:
I’m curious. I’ve always done sites with center alignment for the
page and it seems that most people do. But am I wrong about that?
Who here goes with left alignment? What are the pros and cons these
days of using either approach?Laura
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I think there’s a place for both, but I agree that mixing the two layout approaches, center or left align, doesn’t work and is jarring. I don’t agree that center alignment automatically creates issues with finding the beginning of each line; some very prestigious and award winning journalism sites use that very approach. By that I mean that their main text body often is in a center box, with a navigation or other fixed item bordering the left edge of the window. Line-length is more the issue with any text box; many websites just use enormous lines of text and the eye then ‘loses its place’, with the result that you can’t find the next line easily.
CNet, WSJ, and NYT all use center alignment; Web Style Guide uses left alignment with flexible width. It all depends on what you are trying to do. Either way will work.
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I generally go with a center aligned site and reserve a left aligned site only when the design calls for it
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