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Get That Journal Slim and Trim
As you may imagine, I get a lot of
e-mails with problems, complaints, and of course -- the occasional bit of
praise. I've noticed a common complaint from you guys out there in J-Land,
though, and it's a relatively easy fix.
Many of you have
written in to say "Help! My journal is too wide and a) I can't see my "edit
entry" buttons, or b) the text goes WAAAY over to the right and you have to
scroll back and forth to read the whole entry." Joe has covered this before, but I wanted to revisit
the topic.
You may have noticed that this only happens on
your main page, not on the individual entries themselves, or in archived
entries. Let me explain what's happening here.
J-Lander
Sassydee50 has
been kind enough to allow me to use her as an example, although this is a very
common problem. Be sure and thank her in her comments.
These
screenshots were taken a while ago, and may not reflect her journal's current
state. So here's her Journal as it appeared to me earlier this week.
If you take a look at the arrow marked
#1, you'll see that the "About Me" column
is wider than usual -- take a look at mine for comparison's sake. The Journaler
has put something in her "About Me" column that is widening it past the default
setting. The usual culprits for this sort of thing include animations, photos,
long URLs pasted in there or changes to the Journals' actual CSS that force the
column to widen. You only have a finite amount of screen space before the scroll
bar appears, so a wider "About Me" Column means less room for text to appear in
individual entries.
But when you view an entry by itself: no "About Me" column, so no problem.
Now take a look at arrow #2, above. See there? The text scrolls waaay off the page, and there's the scroll bar. Something's up here, and it's not just the "About Me" column. You'l have to take my word for this if SassyDee50 has fixed it already, but if you were to scroll down the page,you'd see that all the entries below it have the same problem.
So, in this case, here's what I'd do to diagnose the problem. Take that scroll bar and push it all the way to the right. Then just scroll down the page and see what sticks out furthest. Like this photo:
That's big. In this case, I'd advise resizing the photo to
no more than 550 pixels wide. Anything past that is the blog equivalent of
smoking at a gas pump.
Except it's not dangerous to other
people or their property. Please bear in mind that your blog is yours, and you
can do whatever you want with it -- I'm just offering this as a solution to
folks that want one.
Also, please be aware that there are any number of
reasons that your Journal would not display correctly, including CSS problems,
embedded tables, etc. I'll be blogging about those issues in future posts. As
always, please mail me with questions or leave them in the
comments.
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Jeff,
You'll get my 2400-pixel-wide inspirational waving American flag when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Lonnie Bruner -
ThanksJeff for posting this, as I think we all ahve had this to happen at one tmeor the other...You even gave us directions and pictures!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! YOU ARE THE BEST!
Keep this up, ok???
carlene
http://journals.aol.com./tendernoggle/HORSESHEBEND/ -
Great. Now it won't allow me to look up anything on the internet and I am not free.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Dianna -
Thanks for the information...I am sure it helped others to understand what is going on! Have a great week, TerryAnn
11/2/06 6:18 PM
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