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Should GaiaOnline be centered?

Yes	40.7%	[ 79 ]
No	26.3%	[ 51 ]
Indifferent	33.0%	[ 64 ]
Total Votes:			[ 194 ]

[MizerysChild]

OMG I agree with this.

with my 22 inch 16:9 monitor, I've got a TON of space on the right side... WAY more than 450 pixels at a resolution of 1680x1050... I use a smaller resolution when I'm at the office and things seem cramped, so a center would be nice.

It annoyed me for the most part, but now I really want to see it fixed...

[kawaiihannah]

I like sites a lot more centered - many of the sites I've used center their designs and I find it more relaxing on my eyes (they don't seem to have to work as hard XD).

As for professional, in many aspects I think that comes down to personal opinion, but when I was working at a web design firm, I don't recall any clients asking me to center their pages ^^; They wanted either a fixed width, centered design, or a fluid design.

[Onicept]

kawaiihannah

I like sites a lot more centered - many of the sites I've used center their designs and I find it more relaxing on my eyes (they don't seem to have to work as hard XD).

As for professional, in many aspects I think that comes down to personal opinion, but when I was working at a web design firm, I don't recall any clients asking me to center their pages ^^; They wanted either a fixed width, centered design, or a fluid design.

Well, Gaia doesn't even use a fluid design. Well, they do when looking for topics and reading through posts, but for the rest of the site it seems to be a fixed width, yet aligned to the left, which is a silly choice.

[Grimlikins]

MagicalMeowe

Meowe says...


Having websites centered just bothers me. I'd rather we left the site the way it is instead of centering it. To me centered websites say "low content". xp

Solia is centered xP
And having all that white space to the left of my avi would bug me D: One side you can ignore, both you have to look at ._. DO NOT WANT!
IF GAIA MAKES THIS PLEASE LET IT BE AN OPTION FOR THOSE OF US WITH GIANT a** SCREENS AND FOR THOSE OF US WITH REGULAR ONES! PLEASE

[Covet Amory]

So Oni i was curious about this "Miley Cirus" Raping topic shown in your screenshot. whats that about? someone's nasty ***** fantasy, or did it happen?

[Yorugami]

Oh gawd yes!!!
I hate that damn empty space on the side DX

Bothers me like nothing else.

Please GAIA!
Get with the times.
Almost everyone I know now has the long
cinema style LCD monitors DX

[Flying Dicks]

MagicalMeowe

Meowe says...


Having websites centered just bothers me. I'd rather we left the site the way it is instead of centering it. To me centered websites say "low content". xp

I dont agree with that at all. It'd make it a lot easier for me, personally cause well, to me, lots of white space says laziness and low content.

They obviously have a global header/footer so putting a center tag in there would not be hard. Widescreen is getting really popular and most laptops come with it standard. Gaia just plain looks like crap on a widescreen monitor, and the huge amount of white space kills my eyes.

[Dragtan]

I hate centered sites. To me they just look tacky. I would prefer this to be optional since everyone has a preference.

[Magnus_Alec]

I don't use a huge screen like you, but my school has some of those screens, sadly Gaia can't work, it's blocked, BUT I get that with Gonline, and I myself hate it.

[Onicept]

Covet_Amory

So Oni i was curious about this "Miley Cirus" Raping topic shown in your screenshot. whats that about? someone's nasty ***** fantasy, or did it happen?

Oh, the author of that topic isn't the best when it comes to his English. It was meant to be "Miley Cyrus Rapping", but, well...he got all our hopes up...

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I hate centered sites. To me they just look tacky. I would prefer this to be optional since everyone has a preference.

Well, I'm not against making it optional, but that'd just be extra unneeded work. Of course, If I were to tell some of the website designers or the higher ups of Gaia that Facebook is centred, maybe then they'd do it...to be "cool" like their "sponsor".

[Engine of Ruin]

I'd love to see this happen someday, and I'm not in the mood to try using BetterGaia again.

[Grimlikins]

Yorugami

Oh gawd yes!!!
I hate that damn empty space on the side DX

Bothers me like nothing else.

Please GAIA!
Get with the times.
Almost everyone I know now has the long
cinema style LCD monitors DX

I DON'T D:
This better be an changeable option like screen res. if they make it >.>;
and as for extra work...if you want Gaia to make it easier for you with big screens and basically said you wouldn't care about extra work for you to have it centered but never mind extra work for other people... then I want Gaia to at least make it easier for me and people with laptops and non big screens crying
I can't stand the thing centered on Solia, I think it makes it look....low content. IF they do center it please have items and tools bars from one side to the other like myspace, so there's no blank space of color/design.
Now, I think Chinese Gaia was centered and that was okay looking...but your edit makes shudder ._.

[Onicept]

Grimlikins

Yorugami

Oh gawd yes!!!
I hate that damn empty space on the side DX

Bothers me like nothing else.

Please GAIA!
Get with the times.
Almost everyone I know now has the long
cinema style LCD monitors DX

I DON'T D:
This better be an changeable option like screen res. if they make it >.>;

Well, that's your problem, correct?

[Grimlikins]

Onicept

Grimlikins

Yorugami

Oh gawd yes!!!
I hate that damn empty space on the side DX

Bothers me like nothing else.

Please GAIA!
Get with the times.
Almost everyone I know now has the long
cinema style LCD monitors DX

I DON'T D:
This better be an changeable option like screen res. if they make it >.>;

Well, that's your problem, correct?

So just because you have a big screen monitor and I don't, ******** me I don't get any say cause I'm "behind the times"? how come you all can BAWW for what you want but I can't voice the parallel argument of people with smaller screens?
How about this...the fact that it isn't centered is YOUR problem. Deal.

[Onicept]

Grimlikins

Onicept

Grimlikins

Yorugami

Oh gawd yes!!!
I hate that damn empty space on the side DX

Bothers me like nothing else.

Please GAIA!
Get with the times.
Almost everyone I know now has the long
cinema style LCD monitors DX

I DON'T D:
This better be an changeable option like screen res. if they make it >.>;

Well, that's your problem, correct?

So just because you have a big screen monitor and I don't, ******** me I don't get any say cause I'm "behind the times"? how come you all can BAWW for what you want but I can't voice the parallel argument of people with smaller screens?
How about this...the fact that it isn't centered is YOUR problem. Deal.

Yeah, and many other's problem too. I guess it didn't occur to you, but centring the site on a 4:3 monitor isn't going to change much. In fact, nothing would change at all, for you.

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This better be an changeable option like screen res. if they make it >.>;
and as for extra work...if you want Gaia to make it easier for you with big screens and basically said you wouldn't care about extra work for you to have it centered but never mind extra work for other people... then I want Gaia to at least make it easier for me and people with laptops and non big screens

Hm, changing a small line of coding to centre the main parts of the site...no big deal. Having to create two different skins AND keep both of them updated? Extra work.