* Centring the forum?

[Valkrider]

Jane

Any chance of centring the forum in the browser window. On a wide screen monitor it looks most odd scrunched up to the left?

[Jane]

Better?

[ColeValleyGirl]

People may need to force a browser refresh (CTL-F5) to see the centring.

[Valkrider]

Thanks Jane MUCH

[tatewise]

That is much better, but I notice that the Forum width automatically adjusts to the browser Window width, but only up to a point.
Can the maximum allowed Forum width be increased by about 50% or even unlimited to fill the Window?

[Jane]

It could be, but I find that on larger screens unlimited can make the text very difficult to read, so they are limited to 1024.

[tatewise]

I don't understand what "can make the text very difficult to read".
The text font doesn't get any smaller.
Do you mean that scanning from end of one line to start of next line is perhaps more difficult?

The old KB used to expand full width, but now doesn't, and makes the Sidebar & ToC long headings wrap, where they did not before.

I've not noticed any similar tactics on any other sites, such as Wikipedia.

If users wish, they can always shrink the size of the browser window to make the Forums narrower.

[ColeValleyGirl]

Mike,
if you have multiple tabs open in the same browser, shrinking the browser size for a single site isn't very convenient.

I've always been taught that keeping line lengths reasonable increases readability (because of the scanning end-to-end effect that you refer to). Most well-designed themes for content management systems such as WordPress and Drupal only expand up to a certain limit for that reason. Wikipedia sometimes breaks up what would otherwise be great slabs of text with images and tables, but is still very difficult to read in a browser expanded to maximum size.

Helen

[PeterR]

I too like having the forum centred, and I much prefer having the maximum width restricted.