How to WIDEN my writing area?

tefter

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Post Sat Oct 02, 2010 2:23 pm

How to WIDEN my writing area?

A have read quite a lot of instructions how to do that but most of them refer to older versions of Blogger. I want to widen my writing space by about a third. Here is my current HTML template. What do I need to change?


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>

<head>
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:skin><![CDATA[/*
-----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name: Rounders 3
Date: 27 Feb 2004
Updated by: Blogger Team
----------------------------------------------- */

/* Variable definitions
====================
<Variable name="mainBgColor" description="Main Background Color"
type="color" default="#eec" value="#eeeecc">
<Variable name="mainTextColor" description="Text Color" type="color"
default="#333" value="#333333">
<Variable name="postTitleColor" description="Post Title Color" type="color"
default="#333" value="#990000">
<Variable name="dateHeaderColor" description="Date Header Color"
type="color" default="#586" value="#558866">
<Variable name="borderColor" description="Post Border Color" type="color"
default="#bbb" value="#ffffff">


<Variable name="mainLinkColor" description="Link Color" type="color"
default="#456" value="#990000">
<Variable name="mainVisitedLinkColor" description="Visited Link Color"
type="color" default="#234" value="#0c0c0c">

<Variable name="titleBgColor" description="Page Header Background Color"
type="color" default="#357" value="#558866">
<Variable name="titleTextColor" description="Blog Title Color"
type="color" default="#fff" value="#f63d3d">

<Variable name="topSidebarHeaderColor"
description="Top Sidebar Title Color"
type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff">
<Variable name="topSidebarBgColor"
description="Top Sidebar Background Color"
type="color" default="#586" value="#558866">
<Variable name="topSidebarTextColor" description="Top Sidebar Text Color"
type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff">
<Variable name="topSidebarLinkColor" description="Top Sidebar Link Color"
type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff">
<Variable name="topSidebarVisitedLinkColor"
description="Top Sidebar Visited Link Color"
type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff">
<Variable name="bottomSidebarHeaderColor"
description="Bottom Sidebar Title Color"
type="color" default="#abc" value="#aabbcc">

<Variable name="bottomSidebarLinkColor"
description="Bottom Sidebar Link Color"
type="color" default="#99ddbb" value="#99ddbb">
<Variable name="bottomSidebarVisitedLinkColor"
description="Bottom Sidebar Visited Link Color"
type="color" default="#ffffff" value="#ffffff">
<Variable name="bodyFont" description="Text Font" type="font"
default="normal normal 100% 'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif" value="normal normal 126% Georgia, Times, serif">
<Variable name="pageTitleFont" description="Blog Title Font" type="font"
default="normal bold 200% 'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif" value="normal bold 200% Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif;">
<Variable name="descriptionFont" description="Blog Description Font" type="font"
default="normal normal 100% 'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif" value="normal normal 100% Impact, sans-serif;">
<Variable name="headerFont" description="Sidebar Title Font" type="font"
default="normal bold 100% 'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif" value="normal bold 100% Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif;">
<Variable name="postTitleFont" description="Post Title Font" type="font"
default="normal bold 135% 'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif" value="normal bold 135% Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">
<Variable name="startSide" description="Start side in blog language"
type="automatic" default="left" value="left">
<Variable name="endSide" description="End side in blog language"
type="automatic" default="right" value="right">
*/

body {
background:#123;
margin:0;
text-align:center;
line-height: 1.5em;
font: x-small Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Sans-serif;
color:$mainTextColor;
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;
}


/* Page Structure
----------------------------------------------- */
/* The images which help create rounded corners depend on the
following widths and measurements. If you want to change
these measurements, the images will also need to change.
*/
#outer-wrapper {
width:740px;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:$startSide;
font: $bodyFont;
}
#main-wrap1 {
width:485px;
float:$startSide;
background:$mainBgColor url("http://www1.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_main_bot.gif") no-repeat $startSide bottom;
margin:15px 0 0;
padding:0 0 10px;
color:$mainTextColor;
font-size:97%;
line-height:1.5em;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}
#main-wrap2 {
float:$startSide;
width:100%;
background:url("http://www1.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_main_top.gif") no-repeat $startSide top;
padding:10px 0 0;
}
#main {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/rails_main.gif") repeat-y $startSide;
padding:0;
width:485px;
}
#sidebar-wrap {
width:240px;
float:$endSide;
margin:15px 0 0;
font-size:97%;
line-height:1.5em;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}

.main .widget {
margin-top: 4px;
width: 468px;
padding: 0 13px;
}

.main .Blog {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 484px;
}

/* Links
----------------------------------------------- */
a:link {
color: $mainLinkColor;
}
a:visited {
color: $mainVisitedLinkColor;
}
a:hover {
color: $mainVisitedLinkColor;
}
a img {
border-width:0;
}


/* Blog Header
----------------------------------------------- */
#header-wrapper {
background:$titleBgColor url("http://www2.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_cap_top.gif") no-repeat $startSide top;
margin-top:22px;
margin-$endSide:0;
margin-bottom:0;
margin-$startSide:0;
padding-top:8px;
padding-$endSide:0;
padding-bottom:0;
padding-$startSide:0;
color:$titleTextColor;
}
#header {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_cap_bot.gif") no-repeat $startSide bottom;
padding:0 15px 8px;
}
#header h1 {
margin:0;
padding:10px 30px 5px;
line-height:1.2em;
font: $pageTitleFont;
}
#header a,
#header a:visited {
text-decoration:none;
color: $titleTextColor;
}
#header .description {
margin:0;
padding:5px 30px 10px;
line-height:1.5em;
font: $descriptionFont;
}


/* Posts
----------------------------------------------- */
h2.date-header {
margin-top:0;
margin-$endSide:28px;
margin-bottom:0;
margin-$startSide:43px;
font-size:85%;
line-height:2em;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.2em;
color:$dateHeaderColor;
}
.post {
margin:.3em 0 25px;
padding:0 13px;
border:1px dotted $borderColor;
border-width:1px 0;
}
.post h3 {
margin:0;
line-height:1.5em;
background:url("http://www2.blogblog.com/rounders3/icon_arrow.gif") no-repeat 10px .5em;
display:block;
border:1px dotted $borderColor;
border-width:0 1px 1px;
padding-top:2px;
padding-$endSide:14px;
padding-bottom:2px;
padding-$startSide:29px;
color: $postTitleColor;
font: $postTitleFont;
}
.post h3 a, .post h3 a:visited {
text-decoration:none;
color: $postTitleColor;
}
a.title-link:hover {
background-color: $borderColor;
color: $mainTextColor;
}
.post-body {
border:1px dotted $borderColor;
border-width:0 1px 1px;
border-bottom-color:$mainBgColor;
padding-top:10px;
padding-$endSide:14px;
padding-bottom:1px;
padding-$startSide:29px;
}
html>body .post-body {
border-bottom-width:0;
}
.post-body {
margin:0 0 .75em;
}
.post-body blockquote {
line-height:1.3em;
}
.post-footer {
background: #ffffff;
margin:0;
padding-top:2px;
padding-$endSide:14px;
padding-bottom:2px;
padding-$startSide:29px;
border:1px dotted $borderColor;
border-width:1px;
font-size:100%;
line-height:1.5em;
color: #666666;
}
/*
The first line of the post footer might only have floated text, so we need to give it a height.
The height comes from the post-footer line-height
*/
.post-footer-line-1 {
min-height:1.5em;
_height:1.5em;
}

.post-footer p {
margin: 0;
}
html>body .post-footer {
border-bottom-color:transparent;
}

.uncustomized-post-template .post-footer {
text-align: $endSide;
}

.uncustomized-post-template .post-author,
.uncustomized-post-template .post-timestamp {
display: block;
float: $startSide;
text-align:$startSide;
margin-$endSide: 4px;
}

.post-footer a {
color: #456;
}
.post-footer a:hover {
color: #234;
}
a.comment-link {
/* IE5.0/Win doesn't apply padding to inline elements,
so we hide these two declarations from it */
background/* */:/**/url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders/icon_comment_$startSide.gif") no-repeat $startSide 45%;
padding-$startSide:14px;
}
html>body a.comment-link {
/* Respecified, for IE5/Mac's benefit */
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/icon_comment_$startSide.gif") no-repeat $startSide 45%;
padding-$startSide:14px;
}
.post img, table.tr-caption-container {
margin-top:0;
margin-$endSide:0;
margin-bottom:5px;
margin-$startSide:0;
padding:4px;
border:1px solid $borderColor;
}
.tr-caption-container img {
border: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
blockquote {
margin:.75em 0;
border:1px dotted $borderColor;
border-width:1px 0;
padding:5px 15px;
color: $dateHeaderColor;
}
.post blockquote p {
margin:.5em 0;
}

#blog-pager-newer-link {
float: $startSide;
margin-$startSide: 13px;
}

#blog-pager-older-link {
float: $endSide;
margin-$endSide: 13px;
}

#blog-pager {
text-align: center;
}

.feed-links {
clear: both;
line-height: 2.5em;
margin-$startSide: 13px;
}

/* Comments
----------------------------------------------- */
#comments {
margin:-25px 13px 0;
border:1px dotted $borderColor;
border-width:0 1px 1px;
padding-top:20px;
padding-$endSide:0;
padding-bottom:15px;
padding-$startSide:0;
}
#comments h4 {
margin:0 0 10px;
padding-top:0;
padding-$endSide:14px;
padding-bottom:2px;
padding-$startSide:29px;
border-bottom:1px dotted $borderColor;
font-size:120%;
line-height:1.4em;
color:$postTitleColor;
}
#comments-block {
margin-top:0;
margin-$endSide:15px;
margin-bottom:0;
margin-$startSide:9px;
}
.comment-author {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/icon_comment_$startSide.gif") no-repeat 2px .3em;
margin:.5em 0;
padding-top:0;
padding-$endSide:0;
padding-bottom:0;
padding-$startSide:20px;
font-weight:bold;
}
.comment-body {
margin:0 0 1.25em;
padding-top:0;
padding-$endSide:0;
padding-bottom:0;
padding-$startSide:20px;
}
.comment-body p {
margin:0 0 .5em;
}
.comment-footer {
margin:0 0 .5em;
padding-top:0;
padding-$endSide:0;
padding-bottom:.75em;
padding-$startSide:20px;
}
.comment-footer a:link {
color: #333;
}
.deleted-comment {
font-style:italic;
color:gray;
}
.comment-form {
padding-$startSide:20px;
padding-$endSide:5px;
}
#comments .comment-form h4 {
padding-$startSide:0px;
}

/* Profile
----------------------------------------------- */
.profile-img {
float: $startSide;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-$endSide: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
margin-$startSide: 0;
border: 4px solid $topSidebarTextColor;
}

.profile-datablock {
margin-top:0;
margin-$endSide:15px;
margin-bottom:.5em;
margin-$startSide:0;
padding-top:8px;
}

.profile-link {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/icon_profile_$startSide.gif") no-repeat $startSide .1em;
padding-$startSide:15px;
font-weight:bold;
}

.profile-textblock {
clear: both;
margin: 0;
}

.sidebar .clear, .main .widget .clear {
clear: both;
}

#sidebartop-wrap {
background:$topSidebarBgColor url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_prof_bot.gif") no-repeat $startSide bottom;
margin:0px 0px 15px;
padding:0px 0px 10px;
color:$topSidebarTextColor;
}

#sidebartop-wrap2 {
background:url("http://www2.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_prof_top.gif") no-repeat $startSide top;
padding: 10px 0 0;
margin:0;
border-width:0;
}

#sidebartop h2 {
line-height:1.5em;
color:$topSidebarHeaderColor;
border-bottom: 1px dotted $topSidebarHeaderColor;
font: $headerFont;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}

#sidebartop a {
color: $topSidebarLinkColor;
}

#sidebartop a:hover {
color: $topSidebarVisitedLinkColor;
}
#sidebartop a:visited {
color: $topSidebarVisitedLinkColor;
}

#sidebar a {
color: $bottomSidebarLinkColor;
}
#sidebar a:hover,
#sidebar a:visited {
color: $bottomSidebarVisitedLinkColor;
}

/* Sidebar Boxes
----------------------------------------------- */

.sidebar .widget {
margin:.5em 13px 1.25em;
padding:0 0px;
}

.widget-content {
margin-top: 0.5em;
}

#sidebarbottom-wrap1 {
background:$titleBgColor url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_side_top.gif") no-repeat $startSide top;
margin:0 0 15px;
padding:10px 0 0;
color: $titleTextColor;
}

#sidebarbottom-wrap2 {
background:url("http://www1.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_side_bot.gif") no-repeat $startSide bottom;
padding:0 0 8px;
}

.sidebar h2 {
margin-top:0;
margin-$endSide:0;
margin-bottom:.5em;
margin-$startSide:0;
padding:0 0 .2em;
line-height:1.5em;
font:$headerFont;
}

.sidebar ul {
list-style:none;
margin:0 0 1.25em;
padding:0;
}

.sidebar ul li {
background:url("http://www2.blogblog.com/rounders3/icon_arrow_sm.gif") no-repeat 2px .25em;
margin:0;
padding-top:0;
padding-$endSide:0;
padding-bottom:3px;
padding-$startSide:16px;
margin-bottom:3px;
border-bottom:1px dotted $borderColor;
line-height:1.4em;
}
.sidebar p {
margin:0 0 .6em;
}

#sidebar h2 {
color: $bottomSidebarHeaderColor;
border-bottom: 1px dotted $bottomSidebarHeaderColor;
}

/* Footer
----------------------------------------------- */
#footer-wrap1 {
clear:both;
margin:0 0 10px;
padding:15px 0 0;
}
#footer-wrap2 {
background:$titleBgColor url("http://www2.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_cap_top.gif") no-repeat $startSide top;
color:$titleTextColor;
}
#footer {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_cap_bot.gif") no-repeat $startSide bottom;
padding:8px 15px;
}
#footer hr {display:none;}
#footer p {margin:0;}
#footer a {color:$titleTextColor;}
#footer .widget-content {
margin:0;
}

/** Page structure tweaks for layout editor wireframe */
body#layout #main-wrap1,
body#layout #sidebar-wrap,
body#layout #header-wrapper {
margin-top: 0;
}

body#layout #header, body#layout #header-wrapper,
body#layout #outer-wrapper {
margin-$startSide:0,
margin-$endSide: 0;
padding: 0;
}

body#layout #outer-wrapper {
width: 730px;
}

body#layout #footer-wrap1 {
padding-top: 0;
}
]]></b:skin>
</head>

<body>
<div id='outer-wrapper'>

<div id='header-wrapper'>
<b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1'>
<b:widget id='Header1' locked='true' title='Free Infidel (Header)' type='Header'/>
</b:section>
</div>

<div id='crosscol-wrapper' style='text-align:center'>
<b:section class='crosscol' id='crosscol'/>
</div>

<div id='main-wrap1'><div id='main-wrap2'>
<b:section class='main' id='main' showaddelement='no'>
<b:widget id='Blog1' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/>
</b:section>
</div></div>

<div id='sidebar-wrap'>

<div id='sidebartop-wrap'><div id='sidebartop-wrap2'>
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebartop'>
<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='Profile1' locked='false' title='About Me' type='Profile'/>
<b:widget id='BlogArchive1' locked='false' title='Blog Archive' type='BlogArchive'/>
<b:widget id='Followers1' locked='false' title='Followers' type='Followers'/>
</b:section>
</div></div>

<div id='sidebarbottom-wrap1'><div id='sidebarbottom-wrap2'>
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'/>
</div></div>

</div>

<div id='footer-wrap1'><div id='footer-wrap2'>
<b:section class='footer' id='footer'/>
</div></div>

</div>
</body>
</html>

How to WIDEN my writing area?


Gyms

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Post Sun Oct 03, 2010 3:35 am

Re: How to WIDEN my writing area?

Find and replace on your CSS

You can use this code as it is or you can change the values on red

#outer-wrapper {
font:126% Georgia,Times,serif;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:left;
width:840px;
}


#main-wrap1 {
background:url("http://www1.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_main_bot.gif") no-repeat scroll left bottom #EEEECC;
color:#333333;
float:left;
font-size:97%;
line-height:1.5em;
margin:15px 0 0;
overflow:hidden;
padding:0 0 10px;
width:574px;
word-wrap:break-word;
}


#main {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/rails_main.gif") repeat-y scroll left center transparent;
padding:0;
width:556px;
}

.main .Blog {
margin:0;
padding:0;
width:575px;
}

Once you change these values you will need to replace some images on your template for example:
Header image = http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_cap_bot.gif = The size of this image is 740 x 8, if your blog size is 900 you will need to download the image and modify the size to match your blog size.

If you need more help just let me know

tefter

Posts: 2

Joined: Sat Oct 02, 2010 2:20 pm

New to the Forum

Post Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:23 pm

Re: How to WIDEN my writing area?

Thank you so much! I managed to widen the writing area but I must be doing something wrong because now I get this gray line running down my post (see the screen-shot). I think this is related to your last remark about the Header image. Is it? Sorry if I sound stupid - I've never dealt with Blogger settings before and I can't figure out how to fix that :(

(under the image are my new HTML settings which I changed manually)

Image

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>

<head>
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:skin><![CDATA[/*
-----------------------------------------------
Blogger Template Style
Name: Rounders 3
Date: 27 Feb 2004
Updated by: Blogger Team
----------------------------------------------- */

/* Variable definitions
====================
<Variable name="mainBgColor" description="Main Background Color"
type="color" default="#eec" value="#eeeecc">
<Variable name="mainTextColor" description="Text Color" type="color"
default="#333" value="#333333">
<Variable name="postTitleColor" description="Post Title Color" type="color"
default="#333" value="#990000">
<Variable name="dateHeaderColor" description="Date Header Color"
type="color" default="#586" value="#558866">
<Variable name="borderColor" description="Post Border Color" type="color"
default="#bbb" value="#ffffff">


<Variable name="mainLinkColor" description="Link Color" type="color"
default="#456" value="#990000">
<Variable name="mainVisitedLinkColor" description="Visited Link Color"
type="color" default="#234" value="#0c0c0c">

<Variable name="titleBgColor" description="Page Header Background Color"
type="color" default="#357" value="#558866">
<Variable name="titleTextColor" description="Blog Title Color"
type="color" default="#fff" value="#f63d3d">

<Variable name="topSidebarHeaderColor"
description="Top Sidebar Title Color"
type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff">
<Variable name="topSidebarBgColor"
description="Top Sidebar Background Color"
type="color" default="#586" value="#558866">
<Variable name="topSidebarTextColor" description="Top Sidebar Text Color"
type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff">
<Variable name="topSidebarLinkColor" description="Top Sidebar Link Color"
type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff">
<Variable name="topSidebarVisitedLinkColor"
description="Top Sidebar Visited Link Color"
type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff">
<Variable name="bottomSidebarHeaderColor"
description="Bottom Sidebar Title Color"
type="color" default="#abc" value="#aabbcc">

<Variable name="bottomSidebarLinkColor"
description="Bottom Sidebar Link Color"
type="color" default="#99ddbb" value="#99ddbb">
<Variable name="bottomSidebarVisitedLinkColor"
description="Bottom Sidebar Visited Link Color"
type="color" default="#ffffff" value="#ffffff">
<Variable name="bodyFont" description="Text Font" type="font"
default="normal normal 100% 'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif" value="normal normal 126% Georgia, Times, serif">
<Variable name="pageTitleFont" description="Blog Title Font" type="font"
default="normal bold 200% 'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif" value="normal bold 200% Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif;">
<Variable name="descriptionFont" description="Blog Description Font" type="font"
default="normal normal 100% 'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif" value="normal normal 100% Impact, sans-serif;">
<Variable name="headerFont" description="Sidebar Title Font" type="font"
default="normal bold 100% 'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif" value="normal bold 100% Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif;">
<Variable name="postTitleFont" description="Post Title Font" type="font"
default="normal bold 135% 'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif" value="normal bold 135% Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">
<Variable name="startSide" description="Start side in blog language"
type="automatic" default="left" value="left">
<Variable name="endSide" description="End side in blog language"
type="automatic" default="right" value="right">
*/

body {
background:#123;
margin:0;
text-align:center;
line-height: 1.5em;
font: x-small Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Sans-serif;
color:$mainTextColor;
font-size/* */:/**/small;
font-size: /**/small;
}


/* Page Structure
----------------------------------------------- */
/* The images which help create rounded corners depend on the
following widths and measurements. If you want to change
these measurements, the images will also need to change.
*/
#outer-wrapper {
width:900px;
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font: $bodyFont;
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width:600px;
float:$startSide;
background:$mainBgColor url("http://www1.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_main_bot.gif") no-repeat $startSide bottom;
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padding:0 0 10px;
color:$mainTextColor;
font-size:97%;
line-height:1.5em;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}
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float:$startSide;
width:100%;
background:url("http://www1.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_main_top.gif") no-repeat $startSide top;
padding:10px 0 0;
}
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background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/rails_main.gif") repeat-y $startSide;
padding:0;
width:485px;
}
#sidebar-wrap {
width:240px;
float:$endSide;
margin:15px 0 0;
font-size:97%;
line-height:1.5em;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}

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margin-top: 4px;
width: 468px;
padding: 0 13px;
}

.main .Blog {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 600px;
}

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----------------------------------------------- */
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color: $mainLinkColor;
}
a:visited {
color: $mainVisitedLinkColor;
}
a:hover {
color: $mainVisitedLinkColor;
}
a img {
border-width:0;
}


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----------------------------------------------- */
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background:$titleBgColor url("http://www2.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_cap_top.gif") no-repeat $startSide top;
margin-top:22px;
margin-$endSide:0;
margin-bottom:0;
margin-$startSide:0;
padding-top:8px;
padding-$endSide:0;
padding-bottom:0;
padding-$startSide:0;
color:$titleTextColor;
}
#header {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_cap_bot.gif") no-repeat $startSide bottom;
padding:0 15px 8px;
}
#header h1 {
margin:0;
padding:10px 30px 5px;
line-height:1.2em;
font: $pageTitleFont;
}
#header a,
#header a:visited {
text-decoration:none;
color: $titleTextColor;
}
#header .description {
margin:0;
padding:5px 30px 10px;
line-height:1.5em;
font: $descriptionFont;
}


/* Posts
----------------------------------------------- */
h2.date-header {
margin-top:0;
margin-$endSide:28px;
margin-bottom:0;
margin-$startSide:43px;
font-size:85%;
line-height:2em;
text-transform:uppercase;
letter-spacing:.2em;
color:$dateHeaderColor;
}
.post {
margin:.3em 0 25px;
padding:0 13px;
border:1px dotted $borderColor;
border-width:1px 0;
}
.post h3 {
margin:0;
line-height:1.5em;
background:url("http://www2.blogblog.com/rounders3/icon_arrow.gif") no-repeat 10px .5em;
display:block;
border:1px dotted $borderColor;
border-width:0 1px 1px;
padding-top:2px;
padding-$endSide:14px;
padding-bottom:2px;
padding-$startSide:29px;
color: $postTitleColor;
font: $postTitleFont;
}
.post h3 a, .post h3 a:visited {
text-decoration:none;
color: $postTitleColor;
}
a.title-link:hover {
background-color: $borderColor;
color: $mainTextColor;
}
.post-body {
border:1px dotted $borderColor;
border-width:0 1px 1px;
border-bottom-color:$mainBgColor;
padding-top:10px;
padding-$endSide:14px;
padding-bottom:1px;
padding-$startSide:29px;
}
html>body .post-body {
border-bottom-width:0;
}
.post-body {
margin:0 0 .75em;
}
.post-body blockquote {
line-height:1.3em;
}
.post-footer {
background: #ffffff;
margin:0;
padding-top:2px;
padding-$endSide:14px;
padding-bottom:2px;
padding-$startSide:29px;
border:1px dotted $borderColor;
border-width:1px;
font-size:100%;
line-height:1.5em;
color: #666666;
}
/*
The first line of the post footer might only have floated text, so we need to give it a height.
The height comes from the post-footer line-height
*/
.post-footer-line-1 {
min-height:1.5em;
_height:1.5em;
}

.post-footer p {
margin: 0;
}
html>body .post-footer {
border-bottom-color:transparent;
}

.uncustomized-post-template .post-footer {
text-align: $endSide;
}

.uncustomized-post-template .post-author,
.uncustomized-post-template .post-timestamp {
display: block;
float: $startSide;
text-align:$startSide;
margin-$endSide: 4px;
}

.post-footer a {
color: #456;
}
.post-footer a:hover {
color: #234;
}
a.comment-link {
/* IE5.0/Win doesn't apply padding to inline elements,
so we hide these two declarations from it */
background/* */:/**/url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders/icon_comment_$startSide.gif") no-repeat $startSide 45%;
padding-$startSide:14px;
}
html>body a.comment-link {
/* Respecified, for IE5/Mac's benefit */
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/icon_comment_$startSide.gif") no-repeat $startSide 45%;
padding-$startSide:14px;
}
.post img, table.tr-caption-container {
margin-top:0;
margin-$endSide:0;
margin-bottom:5px;
margin-$startSide:0;
padding:4px;
border:1px solid $borderColor;
}
.tr-caption-container img {
border: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
blockquote {
margin:.75em 0;
border:1px dotted $borderColor;
border-width:1px 0;
padding:5px 15px;
color: $dateHeaderColor;
}
.post blockquote p {
margin:.5em 0;
}

#blog-pager-newer-link {
float: $startSide;
margin-$startSide: 13px;
}

#blog-pager-older-link {
float: $endSide;
margin-$endSide: 13px;
}

#blog-pager {
text-align: center;
}

.feed-links {
clear: both;
line-height: 2.5em;
margin-$startSide: 13px;
}

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----------------------------------------------- */
#comments {
margin:-25px 13px 0;
border:1px dotted $borderColor;
border-width:0 1px 1px;
padding-top:20px;
padding-$endSide:0;
padding-bottom:15px;
padding-$startSide:0;
}
#comments h4 {
margin:0 0 10px;
padding-top:0;
padding-$endSide:14px;
padding-bottom:2px;
padding-$startSide:29px;
border-bottom:1px dotted $borderColor;
font-size:120%;
line-height:1.4em;
color:$postTitleColor;
}
#comments-block {
margin-top:0;
margin-$endSide:15px;
margin-bottom:0;
margin-$startSide:9px;
}
.comment-author {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/icon_comment_$startSide.gif") no-repeat 2px .3em;
margin:.5em 0;
padding-top:0;
padding-$endSide:0;
padding-bottom:0;
padding-$startSide:20px;
font-weight:bold;
}
.comment-body {
margin:0 0 1.25em;
padding-top:0;
padding-$endSide:0;
padding-bottom:0;
padding-$startSide:20px;
}
.comment-body p {
margin:0 0 .5em;
}
.comment-footer {
margin:0 0 .5em;
padding-top:0;
padding-$endSide:0;
padding-bottom:.75em;
padding-$startSide:20px;
}
.comment-footer a:link {
color: #333;
}
.deleted-comment {
font-style:italic;
color:gray;
}
.comment-form {
padding-$startSide:20px;
padding-$endSide:5px;
}
#comments .comment-form h4 {
padding-$startSide:0px;
}

/* Profile
----------------------------------------------- */
.profile-img {
float: $startSide;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-$endSide: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
margin-$startSide: 0;
border: 4px solid $topSidebarTextColor;
}

.profile-datablock {
margin-top:0;
margin-$endSide:15px;
margin-bottom:.5em;
margin-$startSide:0;
padding-top:8px;
}

.profile-link {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/icon_profile_$startSide.gif") no-repeat $startSide .1em;
padding-$startSide:15px;
font-weight:bold;
}

.profile-textblock {
clear: both;
margin: 0;
}

.sidebar .clear, .main .widget .clear {
clear: both;
}

#sidebartop-wrap {
background:$topSidebarBgColor url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_prof_bot.gif") no-repeat $startSide bottom;
margin:0px 0px 15px;
padding:0px 0px 10px;
color:$topSidebarTextColor;
}

#sidebartop-wrap2 {
background:url("http://www2.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_prof_top.gif") no-repeat $startSide top;
padding: 10px 0 0;
margin:0;
border-width:0;
}

#sidebartop h2 {
line-height:1.5em;
color:$topSidebarHeaderColor;
border-bottom: 1px dotted $topSidebarHeaderColor;
font: $headerFont;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}

#sidebartop a {
color: $topSidebarLinkColor;
}

#sidebartop a:hover {
color: $topSidebarVisitedLinkColor;
}
#sidebartop a:visited {
color: $topSidebarVisitedLinkColor;
}

#sidebar a {
color: $bottomSidebarLinkColor;
}
#sidebar a:hover,
#sidebar a:visited {
color: $bottomSidebarVisitedLinkColor;
}

/* Sidebar Boxes
----------------------------------------------- */

.sidebar .widget {
margin:.5em 13px 1.25em;
padding:0 0px;
}

.widget-content {
margin-top: 0.5em;
}

#sidebarbottom-wrap1 {
background:$titleBgColor url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_side_top.gif") no-repeat $startSide top;
margin:0 0 15px;
padding:10px 0 0;
color: $titleTextColor;
}

#sidebarbottom-wrap2 {
background:url("http://www1.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_side_bot.gif") no-repeat $startSide bottom;
padding:0 0 8px;
}

.sidebar h2 {
margin-top:0;
margin-$endSide:0;
margin-bottom:.5em;
margin-$startSide:0;
padding:0 0 .2em;
line-height:1.5em;
font:$headerFont;
}

.sidebar ul {
list-style:none;
margin:0 0 1.25em;
padding:0;
}

.sidebar ul li {
background:url("http://www2.blogblog.com/rounders3/icon_arrow_sm.gif") no-repeat 2px .25em;
margin:0;
padding-top:0;
padding-$endSide:0;
padding-bottom:3px;
padding-$startSide:16px;
margin-bottom:3px;
border-bottom:1px dotted $borderColor;
line-height:1.4em;
}
.sidebar p {
margin:0 0 .6em;
}

#sidebar h2 {
color: $bottomSidebarHeaderColor;
border-bottom: 1px dotted $bottomSidebarHeaderColor;
}

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----------------------------------------------- */
#footer-wrap1 {
clear:both;
margin:0 0 10px;
padding:15px 0 0;
}
#footer-wrap2 {
background:$titleBgColor url("http://www2.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_cap_top.gif") no-repeat $startSide top;
color:$titleTextColor;
}
#footer {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/corners_cap_bot.gif") no-repeat $startSide bottom;
padding:8px 15px;
}
#footer hr {display:none;}
#footer p {margin:0;}
#footer a {color:$titleTextColor;}
#footer .widget-content {
margin:0;
}

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body#layout #sidebar-wrap,
body#layout #header-wrapper {
margin-top: 0;
}

body#layout #header, body#layout #header-wrapper,
body#layout #outer-wrapper {
margin-$startSide:0,
margin-$endSide: 0;
padding: 0;
}

body#layout #outer-wrapper {
width: 730px;
}

body#layout #footer-wrap1 {
padding-top: 0;
}
]]></b:skin>
</head>

<body>
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<div id='header-wrapper'>
<b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1'>
<b:widget id='Header1' locked='true' title='Free Infidel (Header)' type='Header'/>
</b:section>
</div>

<div id='crosscol-wrapper' style='text-align:center'>
<b:section class='crosscol' id='crosscol'/>
</div>

<div id='main-wrap1'><div id='main-wrap2'>
<b:section class='main' id='main' showaddelement='no'>
<b:widget id='Blog1' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/>
</b:section>
</div></div>

<div id='sidebar-wrap'>

<div id='sidebartop-wrap'><div id='sidebartop-wrap2'>
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebartop'>
<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='' type='HTML'/>
<b:widget id='Profile1' locked='false' title='About Me' type='Profile'/>
<b:widget id='BlogArchive1' locked='false' title='Blog Archive' type='BlogArchive'/>
<b:widget id='Followers1' locked='false' title='Followers' type='Followers'/>
</b:section>
</div></div>

<div id='sidebarbottom-wrap1'><div id='sidebarbottom-wrap2'>
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'/>
</div></div>

</div>

<div id='footer-wrap1'><div id='footer-wrap2'>
<b:section class='footer' id='footer'/>
</div></div>

</div>
</body>
</html>

Gyms

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Post Mon Oct 04, 2010 2:26 pm

Re: How to WIDEN my writing area?

Hi... the image that you need to fix is http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/rails_main.gif


Code:
#main {
background:url("http://www.blogblog.com/rounders3/rails_main.gif") repeat-y scroll left center transparent;
padding:0;
width:556px;
}

You need to change the size of the image as well. As you see in this part of the code the widht is 556px, so the image need to be the same size.


Ihope that help. if not let me know.


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