default web page width - 1024px or 980px

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When developing web applications  in the past the choice has been 800px or 1024px to fit within the monitor of the user   I ve been researching responsive web design and fluid designs  and it seems a lot of them define the 980px width   With the addition of smart phones and tablets  and factoring in the other possible viewports  Is 980px the new de-facto standard   Thanks

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If it isn t I could see things heading that way   I m working on redoing the website for the company I work for and the designer they hired used a 960px width layout  There is also a 960px grid system that seems to be getting quite popular  http   960 gs     I ve been out of web stuff for a few years but from what I ve read catching up on things it seems 960 980 is about right  For mobile  320px sticks in my mind  by which 960 is divisible  960 is also evenly divisible by 2  3  4  5  and 6

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980 is not the  defacto standard   you ll generally see most people targeting a size a little bit less than 1024px wide to account for browser chrome such as scrollbars  etc    Usually people target between 960 and 990px wide  Often people use a grid system  like 960 gs  which is opinionated about what the default width should be   Also note  just recently the most common screen size now averages quite a bit bigger than 1024px wide  ranking in at 1366px wide  See http   techcrunch com 2012 04 11 move-over-1024x768-the-most-popular-screen-resolution-on-the-web-is-now-1366x768

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I use mostly 978px width for my designs   Adv  of 978px         can be divided by 2 3

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This is a bit of an open ended question since screen sizes are changing all the time and what might have been correct two years ago would likely be out of date now   I use Twitter Bootstrap 3 at present and it uses a fluid grid system designed to work at sizes ranging from mobile very small all the way up to the huge wide screen monitors that are now available   Currently the upper default in BS3 is 1200px which translates to a container width of 1144px after taking account of margins and padding of the grids elements   In my experience  modern designers are working to a width of around 1366px for desktop   All recent designs I ve been given to implement have been 1366px   Note also that you can customise the BS3 grid quite heavily   For example we will use a 32 column grid with 4px gutter in our sites designs going forwards   Ultimately the decision on page width needs to be made based on your website analytics and the screen sizes that your visitors typically use

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even there is no right or wrong answer for this question   but I personally prefer 960px width   since all modern monitors support at least 1024    768 pixel resolution  960 is divisible by 2  3  4  5  6  8  10  12  15  16  20  24  30  32  40  48  60  64  80  96  120  160  192  240  320 and 480  This makes it a highly flexible base number to work with    see this article that shows most popular screens resolutions 2013-2014 in US and UK   http   www hobo-web co uk best-screen-size

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