Explaining the need to avoid horizontal scroll

Question

I need help explaining to my boss why her design is poor on a client\'s website. She has no knowledge of the web, and it can be difficult as a web developer working with a

Answer 1

Ask her if she would want to open a brochure to only see that one of the folds was unnecessary as it merely has some header image spilling over into it (but no content).

XXXXXXX|XXXXXXX
XIMAGEX|XIMAGEX
XXXXXXX|XXXXXXX
       |
Some   | (but
content| this
here   | is 
       | blank)