You may have noticed that we have been discussing fixed and liquid Moodle themes in this section, and you might be wondering what exactly this means. Well, over the last ten years there has been an ongoing debate as to whether websites should be of a fixed width layout or a relative or liquid layout. This argument is likely to continue long into the future.
Fixed width designs are websites that are set to a fixed size either via the HTML or the CSS that they use and will remain this size regardless of the size of the visitor's monitor or its resolution. The exercise that you just completed turned your liquid (relative) Moodle theme into one that has a fixed width. A fixed width design doesn't have to be positioned in the middle of the screen (as ours did); it could be easily moved to the left or even to the right.
The benefits of having a fixed width design are consistency and control. The elements of a fixed width design retain their proportions...