Max-width for page?

[rgilman]

I feel we should add an overall max-width (1200px?) for the page. Thoughts?

[rgilman]

I should add what I see as some factors that enter into the question of max-width.

1. The design does not include any full width banner images or anything else that requires full width.
2. Text (as in forum posts) is more readable when it has width constraints.
3. I'm expecting we will have dashboard pages (for each person and likely for each group) with activity streams (for messages, posts, blog posts, etc.) displayed in summary form. I'm envisioning these being in three columns in the wide display, accordion on mobile. Relative to max-width, the point is that there will be some pages where we want some width although 1200px should be ample.

[iangilman]

Yes, we definitely want a max with for the text. It's possible we don't want it for the entire page, though. For instance, here in GitHub, the page header goes the entire width of the window, but the content has a max width. That seems like a reasonable model to follow.

[rgilman]

Then let's start with a max-width below the header. Looks like it could be attached to <div class="content">.

It looks like GitHub uses 980px for their container width. I'm fine with anything in that range as a start – then we can play with it on various pages and look for the sweet spot.

We can leave until later the design question of whether the header should be full width or not.

[iangilman]

Sounds good :-)