I was working with column sizes in the "Site Borders & Misc" in the "Sitewide Color and Font Options" trying to fix the page width to 780 and centered. When I made changes to the column sizes it thru everything out of kilter. When I changed everything back to the original settings it is still screwed up. What did I do wrong and how do I fix it?
Thanks in advance.
Steve
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OK, I got things back to the way they started but now I still have the question. How do I make my pages 780 wide?
Thanks

Steve,

Your site seems to look just fine, although it loaded a little slow.

Keep in mind that your left and right columns have a bearing on your center width(i think). Did you originally have your column sizes at, say "80%" instead of "100%"

Good Morning Steve,

I looked at your site and everything looked good. Then I saw that you got it back.

Anyway,

To change everything you will have to make the same changes to each section of your page.

I do not know if you are using a M0nster template or not but this would mean changing the widths of everything in Top Of Page, Left Column, Right Column, Messages Area, News Area, Bottom of Page, etc.

Through the Admin Panel I set the page position to "Center". I then use custom only in each of the other areas mentioned above. For example:

Top of page is set to 775.

Left Column is set to 200

Message area is set to 575

News Area is set to 575

Bottom of page is set to 775

You can look at my site if you would like. I have just redone everything...

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By the way, I have done a little trick that helps me easily find problems on my page. I inserted a remark statement at the top of each section so when I view my source from a browser I can quickly scroll down to the area I am looking for. For example <!-- Top of Page --> or <!-- Left column -->. View my source and you can scroll down and see the settings for each of my areas.

Hope this helps.

Doug

Thanks guys,
Yes I do use a template. I will just have to play with the settings some more. At least I now know where to look if it gets out of whack again. I will try making some of these changes and see if it works.
Doug, how do you get your background to be 100% and your page width at a fixed width?
Steve

Steve,

I set my background in my CSS file:



I just copied it from the Style.css file and pasted it in my Custom.css file and made the changes there. I did just notice that I forgot to get rid of the background color when I added my image. Something else I have to clean up...

Doug

Edit:

I did not read your entire question I guess.

Your background is a separate animal. The background is always there behind your page content. Depending on your page width, you can show as little or as much of your background as you want. If you set you web page up at 100% width, you will not see that background. When you set your page to 775 you will have background showing on each side. How much shows depends on the screen size and resolution.

Thanks Doug, Is your site set up with a template or is it your own creation?

Well, it was a template. But I got tired of finding problems with it and calling tech support and having them tell me "Well it was fine when you bought it", for 100.00 and hour we can... yada, yada, yada.

So I have changed everything. It is now 100% mine. It was a lot of work but it is now much better than what I had.

Now if I call tech support with needing help with something we don't have to go all that frustrating stuff.

Doug