What is the best website width? [on hold]

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Published on 2014-08-18T16:47:11Z Indexed on 2014/08/18 22:33 UTC
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What is the best website width?

I can't decide between 1200px max-width and 1236px....with 300px sidebar as enough or 320px?

I personally like wide website, my current website is 1236px; but I hear it's considered very wide for eyesight and all those gadgets keeping in mind...

The website is for reading - I mean, mostly articles with around 3000 words on average per page, so no matter - whether they look wide, whether they love to scroll down :)

Also - what to decide about Banner size / sidebar? Probably the 300px I can put a 300px banner, but on 320px sidebar I could put 336px banner, if necessary...

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