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    jgonyer1
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    I work for a company that has a variety of web based tools used by banking consultants. When I came in, I was tasked with redesigning the client site to have all of the tools in one “hub”. I want to “responsive-ize” this as much as possible and I would love to set up a standard css framework for the development staff to work in but I have a major roadblock.

    Content in some of these tools requres the browser width on my 2560×1440 monitor, while other content fits perfectly in the standard content width container.

    I feel that varying the container width too much between tools, and even between segments of a single tool, would create a very jarring user experience but I don’t think I have much of a choice.

    Should I just have the standard container width just be huge? Or should I expand and shrink my container as necessary?

    Any tips would be really appreciated.

    Thanks

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    Paulie_D
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    If it’s responsive you should be working in % widths anyway so there is no ‘standard’.

    That’s the point of responsive design….it adapts to viewport sizes.

    Now % widths will only get you so far, that’s where breakpoints come in.

    I would love to set up a standard css framework for the development staff to work in

    That’s fine…but there are a whole bunch of framworks already out there (Bootstrap, Foundation, Blueprint(?) just to name a couple).

    I would take a look at those before re-inventing the wheel…you could save yourself a shipload of time and effort.

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