Wiki formatting - too wide

[Belthus]

I have to scroll sideways to see the whole Wiki. Most of what I am missing on the right is the sidebar, but it's still annoying. I suspect that it isn't my software or settings, but the physical size of my screen. I am using a 13-inch laptop. In this age of cell phone access, accommodating small screens seems like a good thing to do.

Thanks for listening.

[Scaredgirl]

This is the age old question in web design: what is the optimal width?

Right now the wiki uses a fixed width of about 980 pixels which means it's optimized for 1024x768 resolution.

I have this line of code installed that records all kinds of cool information about forum and wiki visitors. For example I can see the resolution of each visitor. According to those statistics, less than one percent (about 0.8%) of visitors have so low resolution that all the content is not visible. Unfortunately you belong to that group.

Now I could optimize the Wiki for 800x600 resolution (760px width) what was the trend a few years back, but that would mean most people (those 99%+) would "suffer" because there is not as much content visible.

I'll see what I can do. Maybe I could make the layout fluid so that it "shrinks" for lower resolutions but I cannot guarantee anything.

Meanwhile I suggest you join the 2010 and get a computer capable of at least 1024x768 resolution


Cell phone visitors are not a problem because I'm going to add a plugin that automatically creates a cell phone friendly version of the website.

[Belthus]

I use 1280x800 resolution, and I have my browser window stretched almost to the edge. Very few websites give me problems.

[Scaredgirl]

I use 1280x800 resolution, and I have my browser window stretched almost to the edge. Very few websites give me problems.

That's weird. You should easily see everything. I use 1280x1024 and I have plenty of space on the sides.

If it's not too much bother, could you go here; http://www.mmorpg.com/ (http://www.mmorpg.com/) and see if you need horizontal scrolling? It's about the same size as the wiki.

I'm interested in knowing if the problem is your system or wiki coding.

Anyone else has this same problem?

[Belthus]

I use 1280x800 resolution, and I have my browser window stretched almost to the edge. Very few websites give me problems.

That's weird. You should easily see everything. I use 1280x1024 and I have plenty of space on the sides.

If it's not too much bother, could you go here; http://www.mmorpg.com/ (http://www.mmorpg.com/) and see if you need horizontal scrolling? It's about the same size as the wiki.

I'm interested in knowing if the problem is your system or wiki coding.

Anyone else has this same problem?

I don't need horizontal scrolling for that site.

The problem is that I use larger fonts, which appear to increase the screen space taken up by fixed-width containers. So I have the choice of switching to a smaller font and squinting/leaning in, or keeping it as is and horizontal scrolling. Most websites seem to use fluid widths for at least some of their containers, so the display is fine.

If it's just me, I don't want to be a bother. On the other hand, this issue is very rare for me.