In this modern age, why build site with such narrow width? while most of the desktop computer now has minimum of 1300 px width? IMO It would be better if this site can do responsive width so expand the width for larger monitor and shrink the width for pad's and phone's.
If users always used their browsers at maximum size, that would be great... unfortunately they don't though. I've been toying around with the max-width... raised the max-width by an extra 200px. Not sure I'm really liking it though to be honest.
I rather like being able to have two different web sites open side by side. The longer the line, the harder the line is to scan. That is one of the reasons newspapers use multiple column layouts.
That's why my custom user.css to try and make this disaster of a skin usable (which still needs work) does this: * { font-size:100% !important; line-height:140% !important; font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif !important; } body { font-size:85% !important; } .pageWidth { max-width:72em; } Code (markup): To not only make the fonts dynamic, but to set the maximum width to elastic based on the default font size. Though a LOT of the columns in the layout are designed fixed only, which is a really screwy way of making a columnar layout -- but then people seem to LOVE to set dimensions on elements that shouldn't have dimensions on them -- like a content column next to a sidebar... but then even when 'forced' into a fixed width by an idiot client, I always designed it as fluid then just fixed the width of the outermost container... that way if they ever pulled their head out of their backsides on accessibility, all you have to do is change it in one place.
Doesn't seem too narrow to me. Of course you can always Ctrl + Mouse wheel up if you want to make it bigger (at least in Firefox).