Quick poll on readability issues

[astolat]

Okay, so I have been fighting with the new website a bit, and so far I have only been able to get one of two things to work for the individual stories, either centering or variable width. That is -- originally I wanted to make it so that the text would have a maximum width so it wouldn't go sprawling all across the browser, but I wanted to leave it

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[maryavatar]

I had a similar problem with some of the boxes on my portfolio (I'm doing a web design class). I had a variable width box that looked very strange at 800x600, and a fixed width box that refused to centre. I set the variable width box as a percentage instead of a pixel size, and I can't remember off-hand how I solved the cetering problem on the copyright box, but I got some handy tips here.

[maryavatar]

Er, sorry, that was the wrong link. I think the correct one is filtered. Hang on, I'll go code-hunting.

[maryavatar]

I can't guarantee this will work, but give this a try.

width: 80%;
position: relative;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 60%;
text-align: left;

[maryavatar]

Only, y'know, with only one width value.

[astolat]

*grins* Thanks so much!

[maryavatar]

I hope it helps. It's almost 3am here, and I'm nowhere near sensible at the moment ;)