[adacole]

I'm really enjoying Posterous so far. I love things that really break through "the way things are done" into a new and obvious and simple method. For that reason, I'm loving this. I'm probably going to migrate all my activities to posterous. Here's one issue I have so far though, why force such a tiny fixed width in all the themes? Here's an example of an image posted by email via google reader (super big yay):
http://adacole.poste...ture-of-the-day

See that ugly scrollbar under the picture? Why doesn't either the image resize or the theme allow for regular widths? I have a pretty normal screen resolution, nothing fancy - 1440x900 and over 2/3 of my posterous page is whitespace. That's just a little silly. Actually, it's a lot silly. How can we move this up more into the realm of normalcy? 50%? Is 700 pixels gargantuan?

Yours sincerely not wanting to have a blog consisting of thumbnails,

Ada Cole

[Cory Watilo]

The problem with the pic you posted there looks like it has to do with some extra formatting in the html of the post. If you were to edit the post, go into html view, and rip out everything but a <p> at the beginning and a </p> at the end, that should fix that problem.

Right now, pics are limited to appearing at 500px but this will change in the future. The original theme is meant to be very skinny so it works for everybody.

Since the majority of computers don't have awesome resolutions like 1440x900 (I run 3 screens at 1200x1080 so imagine how small websites would look if I maximized), we still have to design and build for the largest lowest common denominator. And right now, we are limited to about 960px wide, hence why you see some white space.

Hope this helps.

[Bryan H]

Cory Watilo, on 11 March 2010 - 06:11 PM, said:

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Right now, pics are limited to appearing at 500px but this will change in the future.
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How much further in the future? Right now for me, this is a deal breaker.

[Chuqui]

Hello Ada and Cory.

I have the same issue. I want to make my content wider (enlarge horizontally), but even though I understand CSS basics, I just can't figure out how to do this.

Can you give me some tips?

BTW: is this the place to post these questions? I don't see much activity on the forums, maybe I should contact somebody else or post this in another site?

Thank you!

[Cory Watilo]

You can increase the width of the column. However, it might take a bit of CSS knowledge to do it. There are some good tools like Firebug for Firefox that will help you figure out what exactly you might need to change.

The only limitation is the width of the picture (set at 500px wide). However, you can make the column as wide as you want and text will fill in.

[Chuqui]

Hi Cory,

Using Firebug is a great idea! I hadn't think of that. I will play around to change the width. Do you know if it will be possible to place wider images?

Thanks!

[Cory Watilo]

I have heard this is on the list of features to build. You might try tweeting them to encourage them to bump it higher on the list. =]

[Rodrigo Ghedin]

Ada, have you modified the theme? If yes, try to replace it with the original one.

I've been using posterous since January, and never had this problem...

[]'s!

[Andy B]

I'm running into this issue as well. I've managed to tweak the CSS to get the wider layout I desire.

However now I'm running into trouble because of the window.load handler being set up in javascripts/bundles/posts.js. It is hardcoded to automatically rescale any images over 500 pixels wide down to a 500 pixel width and install its own onClick handler on the image. See my current result here: http://andybash.post.../11/15/yosemite

I can't disable this window.load handler since the javascript in my theme is ignored. Ideally I'd be able to disable this by tagging the img element with a class name like "posterous_dont_resize" that would be observed by the PWidgets window.load handler, but that will take some changes from posterous. Any other clever hacks out there?

Cheers,
-Andy

[informativos]

I´m a new user but the first post I make is about this also... the wide of the application is VERY small; can someone advance the 'future' changes when will come?

Thanks!