You are right about the text stretching the length of the page being tough to read. This is especially true on the web where people tend to "scan" as opposed to reading every word.
Let address your questions below:
1. There is a significant amount of white space when I view the page on my monitor. I would suspect that it will appear this way for anyone using a moderately high resolution or a wide screen monitor.
The best way to determine the impact this will have would be to check your analytics and see what resolutions most of your visitors are using. Set your monitor to the top resolutions and see how it looks.
2. The white space can definitely be a waste of real-estate. The best/easiest solution to this that I can see would be to move the description up so it is directly right of the item image. This will fill the white space, limit the text line length, and move your cross sells up higher on the page.
The only con to this is that it may not work well for visitors with low resolutions. Again, this is probably a decision you would want to make by looking at your analytics. If the majority of your visitors are somehow still using 800 x 600 resolutions then this would probably not be recommended. If you only have 2 visitors a month that are using a resolution lower then 1024 x 768 then this may be an ideal solution.
__________________
Jeffrey M.
Solid Cactus - Senior Project Manager
Last edited by cactus_jeffreym; 03-25-2008 at 01:24 PM.
|