Truly Minimal Theme – how to make the side margins smaller?

thebottomlessfoodpit · Member · Jan 8, 2014 at 4:47 pm
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Hey, I’m a complete CSS newbie but I do have the setting. Just wondering how to make the blank white spaces on the side margins on my blog very small.

I want to pull the sidebar completely to the right and extend my main content bit to the rest of the area, if that makes sense. I also want the header to span over the entire top without too much white space by the side.

Drew a little picture to show you what I mean incase I am not making sense – http://i.imgur.com/yRgD9tA.png

My blog is at http://colourmeniki.com should you need to see what it looks like currently.

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thesacredpath · Member · Jan 9, 2014 at 12:18 am
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The theme you are using, Truly Minimal, is a responsive width theme, which means it adjusts to the width of the window/device it is being viewed on, so what you see as white space to the left and right at one browser window width will virtually not be there on narrower displays or browser windows. You can see this if you go to your site and narrow down your browser window and watch what happens as you do.

Add the following CSS and see what you think.
```
.site {
width: 95%;
}
```
thebottomlessfoodpit · Member · Jan 9, 2014 at 12:53 am
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Oh that CSS definitely did help. Thank you so much, really appreciate it!

One thing though, the title part of my blog post gets a bit too far left. Is there any way the title part of my blog post could be centred at all?
thesacredpath · Member · Jan 9, 2014 at 4:28 am
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Give this a try and see if it is what you want.
```
article .entry-title, .entry-meta {
    text-align: center;
}
```
thebottomlessfoodpit · Member · Jan 9, 2014 at 10:41 am
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Worked amazing, sir, thank you so much for all your help!
thebottomlessfoodpit · Member · Jan 9, 2014 at 10:47 am
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Sorry, very quickly, hate to be so annoying. I managed to work out the code to centre my widget area. Could you please tell me the code to centre my menu right below my header, please? Thank you!
thebottomlessfoodpit · Member · Jan 9, 2014 at 9:25 pm
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It’s okay don’t worry I figured it out with a bit of Google, thanks :)
thesacredpath · Member · Jan 10, 2014 at 5:14 pm
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Nice job, your site is looking awesome and you are welcome.

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