I'm trying to cover all bases in designing a new site.
One thing I'm confused on is that if I have a fluid layout with contextual ads. Lets say that on an 800x600 resoution the site looks great with all the ad placements, etc. Then, when the resolution is set to say something like 1280x1024 the site is fluid so it will stretch to accomodate the extra space, but the ads are still going to be the same width, so you might have a content area that is 470px wide when the resolution is 800x600 which works well if you're using the 468px width google ads, but then on higher resolutions your content area becomes 800px wide and then you still have this 468px wide ad that is only taking up a little over half of the space of the content area.
How do you design for something like this? Do you just not worry about it and go with it? Seems that this would drastically throw off the flow of the site and is why I keep thinking fixed width although frowned upon as not as accessible, might be easier to manage in situations like this?
Thoughts?
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