I blog too widely: Many blogs restrict all their text to a fixed column width, helping to ensure that all readers see the same page layout no matter what the resolution of their screen. This 'narrowblogging' can be useful if there are things like photographs and graphics floating about because it's important that they appear in the right place amidst the text. But when I view narrowblogs on my computer I get a big wasted space on one or both sides of the screen and I have to scroll down further to read all of what's been written. So, personally, I prefer wideblogging. The text in my blog stretches to fit the width on your screen. I think it's the best format because you, the reader, get to view a greater proportion of my latest post(s) in one single screenful. But it's also risky because I have no control over precisely what you're seeing (in fact those of you with a particularly high resolution and/or small font size are probably viewing a hideous mishmash of ill-fitting text and over-sized photographs, for which I apologise). Today's interactive experiment (see above) has therefore been specially designed to help me to discover exactly what you're seeing when you read diamond geezer.
But my blog survey suggests that I'm very much in the minority as a wideblogger because most bloggers are narrowbloggers. More than half of my blogroll have a fixed column width, as do 80% of blogs linking to me, 80% of the world's top 10 blogs and 100% of my random blog selection. Personally I blame modern trendy blog templates for this phenomenon, especially those being used by bloggers relatively new to blogging. It may be cool to be narrow, but it's not an efficient use of screenspace. How about you?
