Today, I’ve been unsuccessfully modifying my ‘DayDream’ theme of WordPress, first by adding green color #009900. After a couple days of researching the ‘Faq’ and ‘Forum’ sections of WordPress and doing general searches online, I still cannot figure out how to remove the horizontal scrollbar. Each time I would ‘Zoom In’ and view my weblog, an extra ‘white space’ (or my color purple background #666699) appears to the right of my wrapper’ (or ‘container’).
The one column layout of this ‘DayDream’ theme is ‘fixed width’ but since I paid for a CSS upgrade, I am able to set the ‘flexible’ width to 100% for most with 90% for the ‘sidebar’ without entering pixels (px) or preferably ’em’ instead. This means readers with wider screens can see more of my ‘entry’ (or ‘content’) without scrolling horizontally.
But for those who view larger ‘Text Sizes’ (i.e. via the Internet Explorer browser, like mine) the fonts get too large for my ‘header’ in which the ‘description’ portion disappears below and into the ‘topbar’ (or navigation bar), which becomes two lines instead of staying put inside its respective ‘blocks’. The post ‘entry’ fonts are nicely ‘contained’ in their width of 95%.
I learned that setting the ‘overflow’ to ‘hidden’ should have eliminated the horizontal scrollbar at the bottom but WordPress knocks that program out each time I try to save my edited CSS stylesheet. My frustration (besides the ‘long overdue’ delays a few minutes ago) will never be satisfied due to the imperfection I keep seeing with my weblog.
So I uploaded another Microsoft clipart of a purple line and set that as a background with ‘repeat’. Now for those using the ‘Zoom In’ beyond the normal 100%, viewers will get to see the ‘grooviness’ of wavy pattern, not quite psychedelic but close enough, to the right of the main portion of my blog. I was thinking of pictures but those are seen behind my ‘wrapper’.
I’ve been comparing my layout with another website by WW. Their version inspired my one column monster. Then after entering a response to an egg-shaped object a few minutes ago, I saw the websites by Shrimpsei. His has taken on a deeper violet hue recently and away from the fruity, magenta color, which happens to be closer to the pink variety.
I don’t know what’s going on but I think we web designers are either damn bored or having fun making our hard work prettier. Have you noticed the pink and purple colors in our news persons’ wardrobe? I do. And they are hinting: ‘What’s next?’ All I have to add for now is: Stand by and do the best you could. Because I have no idea what TPTB wants!
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