Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Making Blogger work with the Predictiwidget

As you can see, I have been able to make this Blogger blog widgetizable by expanding the right column. Actually, Blogger makes it relatively easy, so while I still don't forgive them for omitting a simple "Make my blog 1024 pixels wide" option, I found it fairly easy to do.

To start, this will all be a lot easier if you select one of the 'stretch' templates. Then when people come with their new-fangled 1024px wide monitors, this will already be done for you. Even so, But if you just have to use one of the others, you can do the following:

Click on Layout, and then Edit HTML.
- Under #outer-wrapper, set width to 980px
- Under #main-wrap1, set width to 600px
- Under #main, set width to 600px
- Under #sidebar-wrap, set width to 365px
- Under .main .Blog, set width to 600px

Even if you can use one of the 'stretch' layouts, I'd set:
- #outer-wrapper width to 55%
- #sidebar-wrap width to 45%

I'm CERTAIN there are better ways to do this. Has anyone found any?

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