Just curious as to what others may think. Should responsive sites be 960 or 1200px grid?

1140

 

but to be honest it depends on design..

 

but nowadays ppl are slowly shifting towards wider screen so anything > 960 is gud

I usually make websites 980px wide for content and the a wide slider could extend fullscreen to maximum 2000px or more or less,

It doesn't matter,

Its an Art and you can do whatever you want that you think its appropriate.

 

Sometimes I will do a website 1040 px wide, and since its responsive it will work on 1024px Screens and less,

sometimes i will make a website 1080 px wide, its up to you,

but usually I like to use 980 px because its enough to add all the content the website needs and because bigger than 980px would not look nice with some designs.

If I had to choose, 960 I'd say. But like its stated above it is an art. Some designs look better at 960, some look better at 1140!

I am curious what the best option is (other than responsive) to let a site render nicely (without too much white space on left and right) on all desktops (everything from a 19" square screen 1280x1040 resolution to a 27" touch screen 1920/x1080 resolution). Will a viewport meta-tag help with this even though the site is not "responsive" In a strict sense?

I am curious what the best option is (other than responsive) to let a site render nicely (without too much white space on left and right) on all desktops (everything from a 19" square screen 1280x1040 resolution to a 27" touch screen 1920/x1080 resolution). Will a viewport meta-tag help with this even though the site is not "responsive" In a strict sense?

u need to use media queries along with viewport metatag

 

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

 

use %width for the width of containers

Edited December 30, 201312 yr by sash_oo7

%width containers I can get. If it is used, is this considered "responsive"? I thought media queries was considered "responsive. I was actually asking for a solution assuming the site is NOT responsive. Last question, can the viewport logically be used on a site that is NOT responsive and if so, what is it's result for larger screens - 27" w/ 1900x1280 resolutions? Thank you for your time.

you can use % along with media queries

check bootstrap

 

also here is a formula how to convert px to %

also check here

 

check this article for using viewport tags for non responsive website

If you are about to do a responsive web design, just one grid is not enough, you should take all the device resolutions into consideration.