Informational - Design Best Practices...

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To be clear I am not a web designer, I am a consultant and fiber optic engineer, training developer and instructor that dabbles and maintains my own website. Not a complete rookie, just enough to hack may way through.

I have been told that the max width of a web page should be 1200px, the formatting throughout the site should remain consistent i.e. menu color, page background no mixing light and dark, page header consistent as far as background, etc.

However....when I look at websites (CoffeeCup as an example) the first page is dark and will stretch nicely across 2 monitors, then the support room page seems to adhere to the 1200px as does the services page.

So, with Responsive design are the standard conventions more or less, lets say, re-evaluated? It seems to be a mix of 1200, some look 1900 and others like CC full screen(s).

Opinions??
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Max width doesn't matter. Make it what ever keeps your site looking good and readable.
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Since you mention the CC site; it is not just one project. The whole site consists of several projects, I wouldn't know how many, And they were made at different times, by different people, again updated by different people. Keeping them all look alike would be very hard.
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Inger wrote:
And they were made at different times, by different people, again updated by different people. Keeping them all look alike would be very hard.

That's where a decent CMS comes in: maintain and enforce the design.
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Yes, of course. But we haven't got that - yet.
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Eric, thanks, that's sort of what I thought.

Inger, to be clear, my comments wasn't a dig at CC, I was more comparing what the experts adhere to (or try to.

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