That would be fixed then, you can subdivide that 980px space into columns but nothing inside will stretch beyond the boundaries. Eg. here's one of our sites: ht

That would be fixed then, you can subdivide that 980px space into columns but nothing inside will stretch beyond the boundaries. Eg. here's one of our sites: http://nxbus.co.uk http://nxbus.co.uk You can see that while there's a background image on the full page, all of the content is constrained to a 962px width container with the auto margins. This keeps it centred but with a fixed width.