Large Photos
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After failing to find a suitable theme, for 900p wide images, that works with 1024p wide monitors, I hoped that this thread had the answer: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/can-the-right-or-left-sidebar-be-turned-off?replies=15.
However, my image got squeezed down to about 600p. The same thing happened to a 720p wide image. Has anyone successfully used the method outlined in the forum thread?
p.s. A theme like ZenLite, http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/zenlite, would be a big help. My only reservation about that theme is it’s flexible width. A fixed width theme keeps text lines at a reasonable length on higher resolution monitors.
My website: http://greatoutdoorsportraits.com/.
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Hello. Please read this sticky post at the head of this wordpress.COM support forum I link to below and realize you are in the wrong forum. We cannot help you here at all. Head over to http://wordpress.ORG
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1 -
This is a .com issue. I only linked to .org to reference a proposed theme that would solve the large photo issue for many of us.
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Okay – understood. That theme may solve the problem for you but will it present a problem for a significant percentage your readers with a screen resolution of 1024×768 pixels or 800×600 pixels?
Most users have 1024×768 or higher, but a large minority have 800×600. These numbers do not include those who browse using web appliances.
http://www.webpagemistakes.ca/most-common-screen-resolution/
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We agree about large photos being a problem on low resolution devices. However, many potential clients evaluate photographers’ personalities, styles and quality of images by visiting blogs that showcase photographers’ work. Discriminating clients would likely be using a 1024 minimum horizontal resolution monitor for this purpose.
Here’s a typical professional photography blog: http://hofferphotography.com/blog/. Does anyone know of a way to showcase 900p wide images with a wordpress.com theme on 1024 wide resolution monitors?
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If you had the CSS upgrade you could create a skin for your blog that would hold images that wide.
I have a skin for a photoblog but the maximum image width that can hold is of 750px wide. You could, however, modify the code to hide the sidebar and widen the contents area so that it holds wider images.
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Without the CSS upgrade, the only non flexible width theme that allows 900px wide images is Monotone; but it won’t do for “normal” blogging. Then you’ve got Garland (779px) and The Journalist v.1.3 (720px).
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Thank you, panaghiotisadam, for the outstanding reference chart you created: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/maximum-image-width/
I spent all day yesterday testing the widest ones with my monitors at 1024 horizontal resolution. The best I could do without crashing the theme or the photo was 726p with Shocking Blue Green. Then I got long lines of text at higher monitor resolutions.
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Thanks for the compliment!
One thing you might care to try with flexible-width themes is constraining the content of each post (to 900px or whatever). You can do that this way (in the html editor):
<div style=”width:900px;”>
COMPLETE_CONTENT_HERE
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Well, now I know that it’s possible to insert a 900px wide photo in the sidebar-less iNove theme without the CSS upgrade. You just need to put a notice on the post, “Best viewed with Internet Explorer.”
I checked my post at http://browsershots.org and found that it gets squeezed with Safari and Firefox, but displays beautifully with Internet Explorer. Go figure! I always thought IE caused more problems than the others.
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