normanlamps Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Hello Everyone, I would like to make our website wider but I can't seem to find where to do it. Currently our site is around 760 pixels wide. I would like to make it around 900 pixels Here is our URL http://www.normanlamps.com In the index page all the tables are set to 100% page width so I assume it wouldn't be an adjustment there. Could it be in the Header? or could some CSS code be determining the width? I appreciate any help :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I am curious as well, did you eer find out how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normanlamps Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 Not yet, Still searching now for the proper width attribute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normanlamps Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 I was able to change the width in the "includes/header.php" file to 900px. As you can see from this picture the content of the page was wider but the white background stayed the same size.. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normanlamps Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 Any Help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
germ Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 It don't look like that to me in IE7 or the latest version of Firefox... :blush: Sometimes after changing the stylesheet you have to hold the <Ctrl> key down while doing a page refresh in the browser to force the browser to reload all contents from the server, including the newly changed stylesheet. This works with IE and Firefox. If I suggest you edit any file(s) make a backup first - I'm not perfect and neither are you. "Given enough impetus a parallelogramatically shaped projectile can egress a circular orifice." - Me - "Headers already sent" - The definitive help "Cannot redeclare ..." - How to find/fix it SSL Implementation Help Like this post? "Like" it again over there > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normanlamps Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 I changed the site back to normal because it didn't look right. I made a screenshot to show everyone what it looks like when I tried to make it wider. It don't look like that to me in IE7 or the latest version of Firefox... :blush: Sometimes after changing the stylesheet you have to hold the <Ctrl> key down while doing a page refresh in the browser to force the browser to reload all contents from the server, including the newly changed stylesheet. This works with IE and Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
germ Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I'd suggest using the Web Developer plugin in Firefox to find/fix things like that. It lets you make changes to the HTML or CSS "on the fly" and you see the results right away without touching any files on the server. Although, sometimes what works in Firefox doesn't look the same in IE so it's not foolproof... :blush: If I suggest you edit any file(s) make a backup first - I'm not perfect and neither are you. "Given enough impetus a parallelogramatically shaped projectile can egress a circular orifice." - Me - "Headers already sent" - The definitive help "Cannot redeclare ..." - How to find/fix it SSL Implementation Help Like this post? "Like" it again over there > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
germ Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 The background doesn't exapnd to the new width because of this: body{ background-image: url(images/b01.gif); background-repeat: repeat-y; background-position: center; } The backgound image (images/b01.gif) is 766 pixels wide and doesn't expand when you increase the site width. If I suggest you edit any file(s) make a backup first - I'm not perfect and neither are you. "Given enough impetus a parallelogramatically shaped projectile can egress a circular orifice." - Me - "Headers already sent" - The definitive help "Cannot redeclare ..." - How to find/fix it SSL Implementation Help Like this post? "Like" it again over there > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normanlamps Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 Thank you very much for your help, I was able to make the background image wider. Just one little problem remains is now that the site is wider, I can't seem the get the main table on the home page to move over to fill the entire width of the page. Currently the website has a large white gap on the right. I'll keep trying to fix it and I'll post here if I do. Again I appreciate your help. The index file has the table set to 100% but something else it keeping it at the original width. Maybe in the header file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
germ Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Still in the header: <table width="766" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> If I suggest you edit any file(s) make a backup first - I'm not perfect and neither are you. "Given enough impetus a parallelogramatically shaped projectile can egress a circular orifice." - Me - "Headers already sent" - The definitive help "Cannot redeclare ..." - How to find/fix it SSL Implementation Help Like this post? "Like" it again over there > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normanlamps Posted February 3, 2009 Author Share Posted February 3, 2009 Got it now, Thank you for your help. Just a few more images now to resize and its perfect :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Got it now, Thank you for your help. Just a few more images now to resize and its perfect :D Did this just increase the size of your site so that it was visually bigger, or were you trying to create more room for content? michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normanlamps Posted February 5, 2009 Author Share Posted February 5, 2009 We we're trying to make the website wider, Not necessarily to add more content. It's just the standard monitors now are all wide screen and large. So with the site being 700 pixels wide there was quite a bit of room on the left and right and with higher resolution monitors things were harder to read and pictures were too small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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