Larger Graphics

  • I gave a presentation a few weeks ago at a conference and it was, in my opinion, a big flop. I just couldn’t get across all the information in the 50 minutes available. So I decided to create a web page. Some years ago I dabbled with Microsoft asp.net stuff and it was pretty easy to do anything I wanted, but finding someone to host the site was a bit of a problem. I’m new to WordPress, about 4 weeks. I have it running on my local computer and am developing a website using the 2017 theme. No blogs, I don’t have time for that, just static pages intended for a small group of individuals with similar interests. I want to have it up and running before the next conference in October, but I’m having some minor problems.

    The 2017 theme is just what I want – the column width is just right. One can quickly scan back to the beginning of the next line, but it’s wide enough that it doesn’t go on for too many pages. However, there are many graphics that do not present well within the column width, and there is all that white space to the left going unused. Is there some way to insert graphics that utilize the entire available width of the screen?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • It would help us help you if you included a link to your website.

    You need to customize the CSS of your website. Login and view your page, in the top bar click customizer then the “additional CSS” tab. Also invoke your web browser’s “browser inspector”, it will show you the html and css your page is using. You will see in live preview the CSS you add. Settings to experiment with are negative padding and margins, also position relative and left negative settings. Be aware that you want your site to display sensibly in phones and tablets, you may need to incorporate media settings.

    Thread Starter hacketet

    (@hacketet)

    Thanks. I never noticed that line at the top of the pages. I’ll start exploring that part of the platform. I seem to learn best by floundering around until I get it working. This site is just on my computer while in development so there’s no link to it. It will have just static pages (no blog, no dancing animations, no video, etc,) and will not be aimed at mobile devices because it is simply impossible to view things like a circuit schematic or an engineering drawing on those minuscule screens. I need as much screen space as possible for these graphics so readers can see information such as dimensional data or component ids.

    Thanks again.

    E T H

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