themes in narrow vs wide screen monitors
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I just noticed that when I look at a twenty-fifteen blog I don’t see any of the sidebar content at all, only the blog post, which seems to intrude and cover up everything else! This also just recently happened to me on someone’s self-hosted blog, don’t know what theme she uses. I couldn’t navigate on her site because her menus were in the sidebar which was totally hidden to me.
This must be due to my old-style narrower screen monitor, because she (the blogger) also uses firefox and has no trouble seeing her sidebar on her (widescreen) monitor.
I am now wondering how my blog appears to someone with a widescreen monitor–maybe it looks completely different than it does to me (I use the Expound theme). I’m thinking specifically of how the homepage displays the posts–I prefer them stacked vertically to the way the demo shows them stacked horizontally, and assumed I had it configured that way. But maybe it only looks that way on my narrow screen???
Is there some way I get my computer to show me what my blog would look like on a widescreen monitor? (without stretching / distorting anything, just temporarily blacking out a strip across the top or bottom)
And re the problem viewing certain themes, is this happening to all non-wide-screen computer monitors??? I didn’t realize we were total dinosaurs yet, thought there were a few left besides myself!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Thank you raincoaster, I will try to understand that page tomorrow after I get some sleep! The “Infinite_Screen” thing sounds like it might work…
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Ok, might as well report here that all I had to do about the “problem” themes was to click “control” and then “-” a couple times to reduce the size to where the whole theme popped in sidebars and all. (gleaned from a happiness engineer or forum angel – don’t remember who, but thanks!) And somehow my own blog’s theme doesn’t look any smaller, so I don’t get it, but it worked.
I did find a way to look at my site with a widescreen “view” without changing any settings on my end (screen resolution simulator) and it looked fine to me)
Sorry to clog up the forum with my non-issue! (thanks again, raincoaster)
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I was wrong- the screen resolution simulator doesn’t do what I wanted, it just takes the way your screen looks and resizes that.
Nothing changes regarding the formatting of the blog…The first way (clicking control and – ) does show me that my homepage set-up in Expound looks completely different than I expected on a bigger and presumably wider screen. Yikes, I have to make some more posts “featured” to fill in the glaring blank space…
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@ ingridcc,
trying again to mark this ‘resolved’
Hi. Please don’t feel that you or anyone must rush to close this topic.
I just noticed that when I look at a twenty-fifteen blog I don’t see any of the sidebar content at all, only the blog post, which seems to intrude and cover up everything else!
On my 12″ X 9″ monitor, set at 1024 X 768 pixels your right sidebar is fully visible, without any manipulation.
I am now wondering how my blog appears to someone with a widescreen monitor–maybe it looks completely different than it does to me (I use the Expound theme).
Everyone that views your blog is viewing it with the same theme activated as you are, Expound. I don’t know what your monitor dimensions are, but you can simulate the view (with respect to the width at least) by zooming out one or two clicks. The only differences I see when I do this are the following:
1. After one click, the second through fifth posts appear in a single row across the front page, rather than each displaying in full page format.
2. Everything gets a little smaller with each click, and the border grows larger, especially on the left and right.
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I suggest you do something about the title and tagline, though. They are obscured by the dark colors in the header image. You could resolve this simply, without CSS customization, in the following ways:
1. Change the header text color to white, or some other light color, at Appearance > Header. This would be far easier than the second suggestion.
2. Create a new header image containing a blank or light-colored (solid) space where the title and tagline will appear. You can modify the present header image by pasting blank white or light-colored space where the title and tagline will appear.
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Thanks musicdoc, I really appreciate your taking the time and effort over my blog! I totally agree about the header / tagline visibility problem, but I just didn’t like any of the fixes I tried back when I set up this theme…
What I ended up doing was to put the whole title into my first menu tag (Loop Braiding homepage) which is directly under the header photo. The tagline for sure is lost but I do see it displayed in google search results, which is where I get most of my traffic.
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