In a file called style.css look for the following:
#contentleft {
float:left;
margin:0;
padding:20px 0 20px 10px;
width:640px;
}
Change the width to your likings:
#contentleft {
float:left;
margin:0;
padding:20px 0 20px 10px;
width:600px;
}
Peter
You can most likely get away with just modifying the style sheet for the theme, and not the php code. The style.css file (http://coverfreak.com/wp-content/themes/shades-of-blue/style.css) needs to be edited in multiple places. I tested by replacing the width of the following elements by subtracting 100px from each:
#content
#contentleft
#footer
#copyright
#wrap
#header
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Thanks Joe, that did the trick for narrowing the left column. The only problem is that there is a vertical line that was at the right side of the left column that didn’t move. It’s now running down the middle of my sidebar. Do you know how I can move that line 100px to the left?
Thanks,
Steve McI
Joe, I also just noticed that those changes removed the navigation tabs from the top of my page.
the vertical line is from a background graphic: http://coverfreak.com/wp-content/themes/shades-of-blue/images/wrap.png
use a graphic program to cut 100px off the left side of the graphic to make the design narrower by 100px;
the navigation tabs will be back if you change:
.headerleft {width:340px;}
Thanks alchymyth. That got me where I want to be.
I’ve got another customization question. I currently have five tabs at the top of my page. I want to add another. How do I do that? I thought that if I published a page it would go up there like the other pages I’ve written, but no such luck.
Thanks.