Trend Watching - Increasing Size
September 24, 2006

I've noticed an odd trend in a lot of websites lately. While most monitor resolutions seem to have stabilized at 1280x1024, newer websites are increasingly demanding more and more real estate. Specifically, they keep on getting wider. I'm noticing that more and more - I'm having to make my browser far wider than I wish, just to be able to see all of the content and avoid a horizontal scrollbar. One perfect example is Lifehacker. I used to be able to maintain a nicely sized browser with this site, yet their recent redesign (even after I remove the advertising) forces me to resize my browser. Evil.