Size does matter

Posted by Steve | Filed under General, Technology

I couldn’t take it anymore. I adjusted the WordPress theme I’m using to fit a 1024×768 window. The default 800×600 window size left the post column so narrow my posts all looked a lot longer than they really were, plus I just hated that the display wouldn’t adjust to take advantage of a larger monitor.
Yes, I know most people still design for the lowest common demoninator monitor size but I put it off as long as I could. I even looked for other 1024×768 themes but I never came across any as nice as the one I have now. I emailed the author hoping he might have (or create for me) a larger template. He responded by saying it couldn’t be adjusted easily because of the images. Of course to me that was a challenge I coudn’t refuse. It was actually fairly easily and the web guru Ladyann helped me with a few bits to put the crowning touches on it. I think it came out pretty good.
I say screw anyone still using a 15″ monitor; they probably have a 486 and 14.4 modem to go with it. GET WITH THE PROGRAM, PEOPLE!

Permalink | July 15th, 2006

3 Responses to “Size does matter”

  1. trench Says:
    July 16th, 2006 at 4:35 am

    your site looks great man.

  2. Warren Says:
    July 17th, 2006 at 2:11 am

    Great looking theme. Worth noting though that from stats that I’ve seen indicate that 800×600 is still ~ 20% of browsers… :|

  3. LA Says:
    July 17th, 2006 at 10:09 am

    With a topic like “Size does matter”, I thought we were going to get some juicy info… but noooo ;Þ