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It's 2011... how wide should my websites be?

3 points by metaprinter ↗ HN
I build mostly blogs and news sites mostly on wordpress cms. nytimes is 970px, economist is 991px huffpo is 971px ...

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billpg
Same width as the user's browser window.
mooism2
...with the caveat that sometimes that's too wide: use max-width in your css.
marssaxman
If you are designing for a fixed width, you're doing it wrong. Make your design scale to the browser window.
metaprinter
Um... I'm on a 27 inch monitor so I disagree with your suggestion.

Mobile devices are handled using the viewport meta tag.

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ministar
You should check out Responsive layout. Nowadays with both desktop and mobile devices consuming websites, there's a need to code for different environments and display resolutions. Read more there: http://maki.bo.lt/responsive-layout