1ooScreamingTrees
05-05-2006, 01:24 PM
I've probably been dwelling over the following problem for 5 or more years. With a simple question resolving the problem, I am now fairly pissed I have not thought to ask a web design community of this simple question.
Case: http://www.huntington.com
Percieved Problem: The shifting of the cells when one navigates between the main sections, ie: Home, Personal, Business, Planning & Tools, etc.
Viewing with IE, the navigation tables seem to remain constant. However, some of the right-aligned green columns (Online Banking, Other Online Services,) shift vertically from page-to-page.
When viewing the page in firefox, a more burdening problem of horizontal shift occurs when going between the main navigation sections of the page.
My question is this:
Is this to be considered an ultimate flaw in the design, or rather, an inevitability of web design, particularly when designing for multiple browsers (ie: always).
My fear is that I am being too restricted by viewing this slight (5px? 10px? I'm not going to measure it right now) pixel shift as an awful attribute. But I think this is because I am overanalyzing my results. The more and more I look for it, this pixel shift occurs on many well-established and 'otherwise' very well designed sites.
Ideally, the pixel shift would be eliminated. But if it cannot be, do you find it to be acceptable to publish a site with this 'flaw'? Huntington is a massive bank on the east coast of the United States, and obviously their creatives and execs were inclined to think of it as being acceptable.
I didn't used to agree, but I'm thinking I'll be a much happier person if I learn to.
Did you get all that? I may be rambling at this point.
Case: http://www.huntington.com
Percieved Problem: The shifting of the cells when one navigates between the main sections, ie: Home, Personal, Business, Planning & Tools, etc.
Viewing with IE, the navigation tables seem to remain constant. However, some of the right-aligned green columns (Online Banking, Other Online Services,) shift vertically from page-to-page.
When viewing the page in firefox, a more burdening problem of horizontal shift occurs when going between the main navigation sections of the page.
My question is this:
Is this to be considered an ultimate flaw in the design, or rather, an inevitability of web design, particularly when designing for multiple browsers (ie: always).
My fear is that I am being too restricted by viewing this slight (5px? 10px? I'm not going to measure it right now) pixel shift as an awful attribute. But I think this is because I am overanalyzing my results. The more and more I look for it, this pixel shift occurs on many well-established and 'otherwise' very well designed sites.
Ideally, the pixel shift would be eliminated. But if it cannot be, do you find it to be acceptable to publish a site with this 'flaw'? Huntington is a massive bank on the east coast of the United States, and obviously their creatives and execs were inclined to think of it as being acceptable.
I didn't used to agree, but I'm thinking I'll be a much happier person if I learn to.
Did you get all that? I may be rambling at this point.