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"Liquid Design" in the website design industry means that your web page layout width expands and contracts (stretches) when the browser window is minimized or maximized. The alternative to a Liquid webpage is a fixed width webpage which uses fixed tables with a specified pixel width.

As you look at your screen now you may perceive it as a fixed medium, at standard resolution, which never changes and everyone else on the web is seeing web pages the same way you are, however this isn't always the case. For web designers the monitor screen does not have fixed width or height because these variables change, at times in unpredictable ways. People might have different monitors screen sizes, different screen resolutions, larger or smaller text view settings, larger or smaller browser buttons, additional toolbars to customize there browsers, different browsers types or versions and so on.

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you can now imagine, the width and height of the screen is different from user to user. Because of this some website owners prefer a Liquid design over a fixed width design to take advantage of every visitors viewing space. Having a liquid web layout will expand and adapt itself to the available space of each visitor viewing area.

Other commonly used names for Liquid Web Design are

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