Comments on: New WordPress theme http://www.joelafferty.com/2008/09/22/new-wordpress-theme/ ...enabling purposeful conversations... Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:11:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Joe Lafferty http://www.joelafferty.com/2008/09/22/new-wordpress-theme/comment-page-1/#comment-9154 Joe Lafferty Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:51:35 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/?p=211#comment-9154 cheers Rick, I'll delve into the CSS and see how i can do it & get back to the other theme. I agree re variable widths tho' didn't think about it as i liked the theme so much. My new MacBook Pro has 1900 x 1200 as does my extended monitor. ...but lots to do today so no time to fiddle with blog! Joe cheers Rick,
I’ll delve into the CSS and see how i can do it & get back to the other theme.
I agree re variable widths tho’ didn’t think about it as i liked the theme so much.
My new MacBook Pro has 1900 x 1200 as does my extended monitor.
…but lots to do today so no time to fiddle with blog!
Joe

]]> By: Rick http://www.joelafferty.com/2008/09/22/new-wordpress-theme/comment-page-1/#comment-9153 Rick Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:37:05 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/blog/?p=211#comment-9153 Didn't mean to make you change your theme!!! If you really wanted to use the other theme there's a simple line of css that could be added to it that would add the max-width setting and limit it's maximum width. Personally I wouldn't worry much about IE6 not supporting that option, It's an old browser these days and it's got many issues besides the lack of min-width and max-width! The whole issue of fixed vs flexible always sparks up a lot of debate on the web, one other issue that affects it is that Opera, Firefox 3, IE7(& 8) as well as the next version of Safari browsers all support zooming of layouts rather than just text resizing, so it kind of makes the benefits of flexible widths less useful. I do tend to stick with fixed with sites targeted at a 1024px width, but for flexible sites then I'd use a min-width of 760px and a max width of about 1200px, this is so that it would fit between 800px and 1280px screen resolutions. Many people do use larger than 1280px these days so the max-width setting stops widths getting too big. Didn’t mean to make you change your theme!!! If you really wanted to use the other theme there’s a simple line of css that could be added to it that would add the max-width setting and limit it’s maximum width. Personally I wouldn’t worry much about IE6 not supporting that option, It’s an old browser these days and it’s got many issues besides the lack of min-width and max-width!

The whole issue of fixed vs flexible always sparks up a lot of debate on the web, one other issue that affects it is that Opera, Firefox 3, IE7(& 8) as well as the next version of Safari browsers all support zooming of layouts rather than just text resizing, so it kind of makes the benefits of flexible widths less useful. I do tend to stick with fixed with sites targeted at a 1024px width, but for flexible sites then I’d use a min-width of 760px and a max width of about 1200px, this is so that it would fit between 800px and 1280px screen resolutions. Many people do use larger than 1280px these days so the max-width setting stops widths getting too big.

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