typophile - 4:17 pm on May 1, 2001 (gmt 0)

>Good point. With 20-something million users, AOL is always something to consider...

Well... You have to consider the demographic of the AOL user. We are talking about the Hyundai of ISPs here. for the corporate (mostly biotech) sites I develop they don't even appear on my radar screen; my logs prove it. So I have no problem designing to an 800x600 standard.

On the issue of layout, slicing and percentage tables. I find it useful and attractive to constrain one table dimension to an absolute; usually width. That way you can have top navigation that is a sliced up gif in a nested table, then your text content below in cells that expand vertically for users who want to use their browser to up-size text.