User blog comment:Susanolivia/Fixed Width, Sidebar, and the Removal of Monaco/@comment-2106481-20101001014827/@comment-1949364-20101001015646

Yes, I still think the content space is too small. You can have a fixed width. Ok, I'll learn to live with it. But 300 PIXELS? Really? That's much too much. That's a third of a page dedicated to something that doesn't deserve that much attention.

I'd give it a max of 225px. 200 preferable.