[D Brugge]

I'm sure Tim didn't mean for this thread to turn into a debate on design aesthetics, however IMHO, if a design looks awkward on a monitor, it is not the fault of setting min and max widths, it is the fault of NOT using these setting.

Sure, if all your site has is a static 700 px wide slide show, then it would not make sense to use a flexible layout. But there are times when it is very advantageous to use a liquid, a hybrid, or flexible layouts instead of a fixed width.

For the record, more than half of my designs are fixed width layouts. The rest are hybrids with min and max settings. But every site that I design, I take into account what the screen will look like on different platforms, with different browsers, and at different monitor settings, and design accordingly.