How to Change or Increase Width of Your Blog

=>Why to increase the width

=> You can have bigger images in your blogs.

=> Good result in old browsers like Internet Explorer 6.

=> Sidebar in perfect position.

=> It gives your blog an overall clean look.

=>Steps to follow

1- First of all you need to go to "Layout" and then "Edit HTML".

Tip: Click on "Download Full Template" to backup your template.

2- Find the following code in your template CSS between and .



/* Outer-Wrapper
----------------------------------------------- */
#outer-wrapper {
width: 660px;
margin:0 auto;
padding:10px;
text-align:$startSide;
font: $bodyfont;
}

#main-wrapper {
width: 410px;
float: $startSide;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}

#sidebar-wrapper {
width: 220px;
float: $endSide;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}


Remember: The width factor in #outer-wrapper defined the overall width of blog, in #main-wrapper it defines the width of your posts and in #sidebar-wrapper it defines the width of your sidebar.

3- Now you know the code, you can increase the width in #outer-wrapper and then increase in the #main-wrapper (for posts) or #sidebar-wrapper (for sidebar).

Warning: When you increase the width of any tag, see the preview and if you're satisfied only then you should save.

4- Similarly if you want to change the width of your header, here is the code in your template CSS between and .


/* Header
-----------------------------------------------
*/

#header-wrapper {
width:660px;
margin:0 auto 10px;
border:1px solid $bordercolor;
}


5- Just change the width factor and see the preview, if you're happy with the outcome, save the template otherwise discard the changes.

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Microsoft's Bing - A real alternative for Google or just another failure

Microsoft officially announced its new search engine's name BING last week. Putting on new clothes and some promising features to its' existing Live search, Microsoft is hoping to get in serious competition with Google. Wall street journal (WSJ) reporter Katherine says that " And, like Google, Bing can be used as a verb." Source
In my humble opinion, I think this is more than serious attempt to just create another search engine with a verb name.

Personally I am big fan of Google, GMail and other smaller products and add-ons that google offers. The fact that I am still on Blogger is a proof that I still am in love with Google. Please don't mind my appreciation for google, but on the other hand, I have loved Microsoft since eons, so I like to think it in a way that this is nothing but a competition between eternal love vs young blood love.

I would like to emphasis one point here - Google on the hand is an icon of creative thinking. Google wasn't a verb before but it has become one. Beat that!
On the other hand, personally I have been using Bing since last one week and to my surprise it really gives me right-on useful information on the very first try. And the company sponsored videos available to view on the website are just amazing. For a new user like me, I like to use the tools and help provided for starting to use for the first couple of times and then I am good to use it my own way. An additional feature called hover displays a short snippet of wht the contents of the page are and then as a user you can decide if you want this page result or not. So Bing can help you make you select the right result ! Isnt that cool? I think it is useful for a user like me who has to search atleast five times a day something or the other related to profession, sports, fun, games or anything for that matter. I would be more than happy to use Hover feature of Bing search results to see what results actually match to my need. Interestingly same goes for the video results as well.

As a conclusion who wins Google Vs Bing, I think Google isn't going away so soon. But the real winner at the present moment would be Microsoft since it was able to get so much attention to it's search engine and definitely some of the new users and existing google users will like to migrate to a newer option if they had one, which they previously didn't had. However, in the longer run, there seems to be a case of fierce case of evolved competition that Microsoft and Google will invest their team work and resources into and user's will decide what they like the most - The capability to search and stay creative or make informed decisions and explore new options.


A quick advice for the big Google fans (like me)- Google feels like family but Bing is here to stay as well. So try it and who knows you might like it, just like I did and I have decided to give Bing a whirl before I make up my mind for my search engine choices.

New Blog series! For snippet see below

New Blog series!

Swamp weapon is planning to present its readers with an inexplicable tour of the questions ( and its solutions from your perspective and our perspective, both) that have baffled human mind since ages and will continue to put mind’s strength at test.
This is a no brainer that you needn’t be psychology expert to experience questions in your mind. Being a firm believer of the supreme power, I can’t be more appreciative of any other fact in this world that when the supreme lord was creating human bodies, he gave all the super strength to this mind and not to the other parts of the body. Every human mind will continue to have questions and it just might be the case that the struggle just continues for ever for most of us. Only the lucky ones are able to see through this rigorous struggle and let go of our fears.


So what are these questions? Any thoughts/ideas for what might be the case for these?

New horizons to discover!

It is weird of most people who can remember the quotation and it's respective author(s) with it, I however, cannot. So giving the credit to whosoever said the following line, I want to say Change is good.

Change is the only thing which is constant

After keeping my tabs open on how much I am going to be posting to this blog and what content stream I will be open to bring to this part of the blog, I think it is a constructive change to focus of this blog to soul searching and of course audience's viewpoint.

To this effect, I have decided to dedicate an entire blog to this effect. You can follow all the words and tools to remember the words on my new blog Remnant.I honestly want you all word readers and learners to visit this website and enjoy the word knowledge wealth at this blog from now. In a long term vision, I can see this blog being a part of my efforts to prepare for GMAT/GRE or general English vocab. I hope it helps the other hopefuls as well. Part of re-structuring!

Also I have another web link that I am pleased to share with you. I have finally made it to Word-press. Most people in my circle blog on both Blogger and Wordpress and after a popular demand by my friends, I have decided to open an input stream at Wordpress as well. It is called yours truely, Swampweapon. Similarly I have intentions to post my all struggles for Phd applications to be posted on this web link. In my opinion if you ask me, I can't stand a thought of indiscipline in the application process and I think we can work through the process by keeping track of what is going on right now. So for Phd resources, struggle stories, school rankings, and more similar stuff, stay connected to Swampweapon@wordpress

But wait there is some more news. As the last part of re-structuring my blog stream I intend to start another blog on Sufism in particular and religion in general. Yes you heard it right. Sufism. Modestly I am decent fan of Sufism, its music and literature. I am very fond of my religion and I would like to follow it with all my passion for ever. So instead of providing my mixed context content, it would be nicer to have simpler and content rich blog. What I haven't decided yet is that to have it host on Blogger or Wordpress. Till the time I decide, I am open for suggestions. So put your belt on and chime in.!


Peace till then!