My Single Mom Life

I often get emails or comments from people telling me that there's a huge gap between my post section and my sidebar.
It was done intentionally.
This blog used a fluid positioning, rather than a fixed one, because my parents had webtv, and webtv was only 640x480, and there is no horizontal scroll in webtv. (deja vu from like 4 years ago)
My folks have since gotten a laptop and when I was up there in February, I set them at 1024x768.

Anyway, I still have fluid positioning, but I widened the post column so it's not quite such a huge gap, unless of course you're using a resolution larger than 1024x768.
I checked in with Google analytics, and 49.41% of my visitors use 1024x768, and all the higher resolution users, are very small numbers of people.
I mean, we're talking numbers like 2.68% and 1.62%, and 0.74%.
I still have more people using 800x600, than I do people using super high resolutions.
It goes from 49.41% using 1024x768, to 13.49% still using 800x600, and then the super high resolutions are way way down there in readers.

One of the ways to check and see that it's still fluid for the people using 800x600, is to copy and paste this into your browser, javascript:void(window.resizeTo(800,600)) then click go.
If you're already on my blog, you'll see that the columns shrink down, and there remains a small gap between the post and sidebar section.
You can also take that line of code and use it on your own blogs to see how much people have to scroll if they are using a smaller resolution than you do.
We make our blogs for us, but they should be readable without having to scroll so much for our readers.
Just go to your blog, then paste that in the browser, then click go.
You'll be able to see if your lower resolution than you readers are having to scroll to see your whole blog. Then check out your stats and see what resolutions your visitors are coming from .

I can't please everyone, but if most of my readers are on 1024x768 and 800x600, then I know that my blog looks fine to them.
If at some point the readers using the higher resolutions outnumber that 800x600 crowd, I'll make it a fixed position, but for now, it's going to remain fluid.

Amy, this had nothing to do with just your comment you left this morning. I get at least 6 emails a month telling me about the gap, and every person who sends that email, is using a super high resolution browser.
Honestly, I am trying to please everyone, but for now, I'm doing my best to make it fluid for the two largest groups of readers.
Maybe when I upgrade to MT 4.0, I'll make it fixed, but not today. I've been up all night long and I'm done messing with this for now.
I honestly didn't even know what I was doing in the stylesheet, I just took guesses at it, and fucked it up over a dozen times.
I'm not playing with it again. *LOL*