By drinkingsouls on
Hey, Ive searched the net and found very few fixed width themes that look good in a 800 X 600 resolution. There are a lot of fixed width themes, but most are too wide for that resolution and add a horizontal scrollbar.
Im looking for a fixed width theme of around 700px wide. I have found a few, but in them the admin section is often messed up, especially when it comes to the theme admin section, where the div/table containing the theme list stretches the layout.
Does anyone know any good themes for 800 X 600 screens? or would anybody help me modify an existing one for use?
Thanks
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To modify the width of the theme you would want to look at the style sheet and modify typically the "wrapper" id. However, when logged into the admin panel, sections that typically use form fields typical extend outside of the fixed region. I would suggest you look at styling the form fields so that they are more condensed. Or you could also setup two themes, one for the website and one for the admin panel. Here is a thread regarding resizing input fields: http://drupal.org/node/87545 - however most of the styling can be done through CSS, rather than modifying code.
Hey, thanks for the reply.
Hey, thanks for the reply. Im currently using the Slash theme. It was originally a fluid theme as the content divs were not contained in any other div. To solve this I created a container div, working the same way ar wrapper div does. I set the width to 700px to get the width I wanted. Pretty much everything on the front-end looked okay, but in the admin panel things were messed up. I dont think the text inputs are causing any problems, its mainly the divs. These are the two problems Ive noticed so far:
On the Home admin page:
- The divs display one below the other instead of next to each other because they are too wide
See image: http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/5880/error1xf9.jpg
On the Themes page
- The theme div stretches the container div
See image: http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/8131/error2xq1.jpg
Because of these issues I figuired it would be easier to use a theme made for 800 X 600 resolutions, however, Ive noticed that a lot of them also had this problem, the themes page is especially messed up on all of them.
Keep in mind that the new
Keep in mind that the new generally-accepted standard among professional web designers is to structure pages 960 pixels in width due to the number's divisibility and due to the decreasing prevalence of people who still have 800x600 resolution monitors. You might want to think carefully about your audience and what kind of resolution they will have.
Your "home admin" problem is being caused by the fact that the columns are too wide. You'll have to edit the CSS, decrease the width percentages of each column enough that they will fall back into place.
Your "themes page" problem could be fixed by using overflow: scroll, but if you don't want to resort to a horizontal scroll bar, there are few options open to you. Among them are using CSS to resize the images, declaring absolute widths for the table columns, or simply resorting to a greater width for your wrapper (which is the suggestion I started with).
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Monarch Digital, Colorado Springs
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Preston So
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"the new generally-accepted standard among professional web designers is to structure pages 960 pixels"
true. a better name for it is an absurd, annoying fad.
since "copycat"ing is the order of the day, it flourishes.
but, fortunately, the more advanced practice (as you can see in certain Joomla templates) is a control panel atop to make the site narrow, correct fit or 70mm (to use a cinematic language) as you please.