Two Sapphire Questions

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  londonirishcentre · Member · Oct 28, 2008 at 3:22 pm

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  Hello,
  Gary here from The London Irish Centre in Camden Town.

  I’ve been working on a simple new site at http://www.londonirishcentre.wordpress.com.

  I’ve obviously changed the header image, and I’ve also bought the CSS upgrade to change the background colour and some fonts.

  Two questions:

  1 I’ve now got two thick black lines down either side of the main body. How can I get rid of them?!

  2 Is it possibly to widen the main post area?

  Thanks in advance!
  Gary

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  devblog · Member · Oct 28, 2008 at 7:18 pm

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  Gary,

  Just so you know, you don’t need the “www” before your blog’s URL. Typing the URL like this is the way to do it:

  http:/#47;londonirishcentre.wordpress.com

  It seems you’re using the theme’s feature that allows you to customize your header. As far as I know, if you have the CSS upgrade, you shouldn’t use that feature because it messes things up. I’d advise you to use your CSS upgrade to customize your header instead of using the theme’s feature. This is very important especially if you want to widen the main content area because you’d need to create a wider header image.

  The thick lines are part of the background image of the body.

  To fix the way it looks now, you’d need to make the width of the #page element narrower, and remove the footer image so that it won’t look weird. To do that, try this code:

  #page {
  	background: #fff !important;
  	width: 740px;
  }
  
  #header {width: 740px !important;}
  
  #footer {
  	width: 740px !important;
  	background: #2B668E !important;
  }

  Now, going back to question 2; yes, you can widen the content area, but since it may take some tweaking, I’d advise you to be careful because you might mess your blog up. I’d help you do it but I’m not around these forums that much… unless other volunteers are willing to help you, I’d suggest you to learn more CSS before doing something major to your blog.

  HTH.

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  devblog · Member · Oct 28, 2008 at 7:22 pm

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  Sorry, in the URL above there’s a “#47”, don’t mind that. It should read:

  http://londonirishcentre.wordpress.com

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  londonirishcentre · Member · Oct 29, 2008 at 3:58 pm

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  Thanks a lot for the helpful, and prompt feedback.

  Since your code has removed the black bars, I don’t think that I need to widen the content area.

  Much appreciated,
  Gary