Design Responsive Web site with Bootstrap 3

[cfmtravel]

I'm planning to develop a new web project using Bootstrap 3 and I'm still thinking about how to design all the site.
I'm thinking about a responsive web site, the idea is
to have 4 "version" (based on the Bootstrap media queries)
up to 480
481 to 768
768 to 992
993 and more (maximum width 1250)

I would like to have some opinion especially for the maximum width 1250. How to set it and what is your opinion about having a max width.

Thanks

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

There are many open source templates around for this that could save you much of the trouble.

[brandozz]

What I typically do is create a class called "container" and set the max-width to whatever I want it to be.

.container {
max-width: 1250px;
}

[swa66]

You need some way to deal with really wide screens.
I'm sitting right now next to a screen that's 2560 pixels wide ... (27", so you can see them)
But I'll never use a browser on that screen full screen - but some people do that, so you need to avoid them getting too long lines to be able to read your text.

But in a responsive design worth the name, you couldl move much of a footer e.g. next to the text and still make use of that space to a point (it stops at a given point , you can't continue to do it forever.
But there's use to be made of width before it becomes impossible and that opportunity should be used.

[cfmtravel]

I was thinking about setting the container with a max-width like brandozz suggested.
Can you confirm that the max-width for the container in bootstrap 3 is 1170px?

swa66 the idea to set a max-width will solve the problem of browser on full screen (when the screen is huge), do you think is ok?

[brandozz]

Yes, the max-width of "container" in bootstrap 3 is 1170px.