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A question on Content-width and responsiveness in Wordpress.

Hey. Having tried a lot of different themes for my wordpress site, I have been wondering about the "waste of screenspace" of many themes. Generally it seems like many of them puts the content as well as the sidebars in a narrow "frame" in the middle, leaving lots of space to the left and right. This is on the case on desktop and laptop monitors, but not on tablets and smartphones

My questions are:

1. Does the waste of space on computer-screens stem from the responsiveness to tablets and smartphones, i. is the waste of space on larger screens a consequence of the themes ability to adapt to smaller.

2. Are there any other good reasons for the rather wide margins of most themes?

All the best, MH

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Tom Beck

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Lars Ploug

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Thanks Tom and Jason,for your insights. I did find this online screen resolution test tool, which provided med with some practical illustration of your point:

http://quirktools.com/screenfly/

All the best, L

Jason C. Levine

http://quirktools.com/screenfly/

Bah. That tool (while nifty) fails to see my responsive fixes and just shows the desktop site at the given resolutions.