Need Help changing the width of the Default theme

  • I am using the WordPress Default 1.6 theme and I want to change the width of the shadowed area to 960 wide. In other words I want the total width of the blog area to be 960 wide. I want the sidebar and the header and footer to be 960 wide too.

    Can someone please explain how I would do this. I changed the header width in the .css file to 960 but the file didn’t look any different.

    I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

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  • You will also need to change the width of #page (line 248), #headerimg (line 303) and #footer (323).

    Also, some divs inside these mayl also need changing (like #sidebar).

    In addition, the images are only made for the default width so you will need to edit them (e.g. kubrickheader.jpg) in your favorite image editor to widen them.

    Good luck

    hello,

    i would also like to change the width of the default theme. i’ve followed miocene22’s directions above, but it didn’t work? nothing changed?

    without a link to your ‘work in progress’ nobody will be able to help you in a focussed way.

    css changes sometimes need to get made visible by reloading the site in the browser, or by refreshing the browser cache (ctrl f5).

    there are quite a few width formats in the style.css of the default theme; and also more-or-less all background images need to be adapted to a new width.

    the following assumes that the width of the sidebar is kept unchanged:

    basically, you need to go through style.css line by line and increase every number of a width: 444px; line (where the number is already largen then 400px ( 444px is only an example; )) by the same amount (for instance, if you want to increase the total width of the theme to from 760px 960px – then you have to add 200px to these width formats).

    i got it working, thanks!

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