Profile theme: Eliminating margins with 2nd widget column

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  misspuppydoc · Member · Dec 23, 2014 at 2:22 am

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  Hello!

  On my theme, there is considerable empty space on either side of the content area. I would like to lessen this margin. However, I am happy with the current width of my existing 2 columns. What I would like instead is to fill up the empty space with a third column (a second column of widgets). Would this be possible?

  Thanks,
  phoebe

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 23, 2014 at 2:45 pm

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  Hi Phoebe, Profile has the option of three columns on static pages, but not on the blog page, or on Category, Archive or Tags pages, and that is not something that can be added with CSS. CSS is a styling document used by browsers to position and style the elements of a web site. It cannot be used to add functionality.

  You can edit your static pages and set them to three column in the Attributes module.

  The width of the overall content area (two or three column) has a maximum width setting of 980px and the sidebar (or sidebars) and content are set as percentages of that overall width. The following would widen all pages on your site (two and three column) from 980px max width to 1280px max width, a 300px increase.

  .row {
  max-width: 1280px;
  }

  Personally, with the nice colors you have chosen, I think your site looks very nice with the the golden-yellow space around the content. It feels very open and airy to me.

  Let me know what you think with the above change.

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  misspuppydoc · Member · Dec 23, 2014 at 7:34 pm

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  Hi Mr. Happiness Engineer!

  Ok, that was my suspicion (that I could only use the 3 column template on static pages), but I wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something.

  The code helped in that I went ahead and widened it…just a little…to give my “About PuppyDoc” page a little more room, because I was using the 3 column template there and it did look a little cramped.

  This alteration made me happy. You are indeed an ‘engineer of happiness!’ Thanks!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 23, 2014 at 9:31 pm

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  You are welcome and thanks.