Modifying the size of my side margin on Linen Theme

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  cmarkits · Member · Dec 7, 2017 at 7:26 pm

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  Please help me reducing my side margin size in my theme Linen using the CSS

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  sfmerv · Member · Dec 7, 2017 at 8:30 pm

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  Your site is locked right now. You need to make it public or have a Happiness Engineer lo at it.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 7, 2017 at 9:20 pm

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 7, 2017 at 9:28 pm

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  Hi @ucergy, one of the things to consider in changing the width of a site (reducing side margins) is that the recommended width for text content, to maintain readability, is 66 characters per line. Anything long than that and it becomes for difficult for someone’s eye to go accurately from the end of one line to the next. Your site is currently about 90 characters per line.

  The following custom CSS widens the overall width from 960px to 1060px. You can adjust the 1060px as desired.

  #wrapper, #footer {
    width: 100%;
    max-width: 1060px;
  }