Page Width

[Glinda]

Okay gang, I have tried to figure this out, but I just can't. My Blog, and even this page as I write, doesn't fill up my entire screen. I don't know if it is something I have done wrong within the Blog setup or with my computer setup, but it's driving me crazy. Can anyone help me so that I don't have about 4 inches of blank space on either side of the blog? I'm a beginner, so please be gentle.

Thanks a bunch!

Glinda

[john]

My Blog ... doesn't fill up my entire screen.

Our original set of color schemes were full screen designs. In these schemes, the layout expands to match the size of the user's screen:

• Antique
  
• Autumn
  
• BlackNBlue
  
• Bleen
  
• Blogware
  
• Bold Yellow
  
• Grello
  
• Minimalist
  
• Minimalist Green
  
• Minimalist Red
  
• Olive
  
• Open Blue
  
• Purple
  
• Rose
  
• Salmon
  
• Simple Grey
  
• Simply Red
  
• Slashdot
  
• Slate
  
• Sunset
  
• Terracotta
  
• Viridity
  

Some users prefered the aesthetic of a fixed width design centered on the page, so we created a set of 10 additional color schemes using that design model:

• Beach
  
• Cranberry
  
• Greybeard
  
• Lime
  
• Midori
  
• Pale
  
• Prince
  
• Shore
  
• Spring
  
• Whiteout
  

So the easiest way to accomplish your goal is to change your color scheme to one of the full screen designs in the top list.

If you prefer the design of one of the fixed width designs, and wish to customize it to a full screen look, we can provide some customization instructions. We also published some instructions called How to Center your Blog which showed how to go in the other direction, customizing one of the full page designs to go fixed width.

...even this page as I write, doesn't fill up my entire screen.

This page was designed that way. It is not customizable. You can change the way your pages look, but you can't change the design of this page.

[Glinda]

Thank you so much for your help. I'm sure you get tired of answering silly questions like this one, so thank you for being so kind about it.

Have a great day!

[Glinda]

It's me again... I changed my template to Slashdot, but the Blog still doesn't fill up the screen. I copied and pasted the info to change the width, but it still looks the same. I'm sorry to be such trouble, but I just can't figure this out...

Thanks!

[john]

We'd need you to tell us your blog address so we could look at your blog in order to help with this.

[Glinda]

Sure...it's:

http://masseyfamily.blogharbor.com/blog

Thanks so much!

[john]

It looks like you did in fact already follow our How to Center your Blog instructions for altering your style template to modify the full screen designs to become fixed width, centered designs.

Just go back and remove the changes you made to your style template, and your blog design will change back to a full screen design.