Meh! I’m trying the new ‘DePo Masthead’ theme by Derek Powazek/Noel Jackson. I think this is the theme I had in mind whereby the ‘content’ (or page) portion to the blogging material is smack dap in the middle of the screen to give the appearance of a nice book. Unfortunately, it works for a screen resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels instead of the 800 by 600 pixels because their ‘default’ body width is 1000px and not my preferred 750 pixels. It does not automatically adjust for that smaller resolution.
I believe the reason why it’s called a ‘masthead’ is because the ‘Blog Title’ — Flynn’s Blogs — is so big that I made it disappear way above and out of view by editing the ‘margin’. The colors are a basic white background with red as the rest of the color. I may change this color later on. But for the meantime, it takes awhile to get used to the layout.
The fonts are mostly ‘Arial’ and that’s normal enough. I do notice lots of reference to the number ’33’ within the ‘original’ codes of the CSS stylesheet by the designers. And for some fun, I’ve incorporated the number ’33’ into the codes for my ‘margins’, ‘letter spacing’, ‘font size’ and ‘width’. So y’all know about the ‘fellow brothers’ that I’ve been mentioning in my blogs. Y’all are catching on to the scheme of things now, eh.
Anyway, the main reason why I like this new theme is because there are three widgets located at the bottom. I am able to organize my ‘archives’ in the middle sidebar with two ‘text widgets’ on the left and right sidebar. I could even press the ‘F11’ function button located at the top of a standard keyboard and still not see the ‘bottom widgets’.
This is neat and simple and serves my current purpose. But if I could only find the code and edit that to reduce the width of the ‘sidebar’, ‘footer’, ‘content’ and ‘menu’ section to 750 pixel for screen resolutions with 800 by 600 pixels, I’d be a happy camper. I’m clicking on my favorite forum sites and I see their websites automatically adjusts to fit the smaller screen resolutions.
Oh, I just found out that the ‘display’ doesn’t do well when I ‘change zoom level’ of my internet browser. The ‘menu’ doesn’t stay static for higher zooms as I place the ‘mouse over’ these selections. I’m not happy again! I will have to find a compromise for the overall width. I like how the top portion of the page stands out like reading a magazine, though.
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