I think it’s mostly an aesthetic preference.
I, for one, start reading from the left anyway ;-)
Also, one could always resize and place the browser window.

Fingers crossed you can do something about the homepage when you relaunch too :)

Wow, that would be fabulous! Thanks Riccardo. :)

Please Keep it as it is.
That allows me to tile 2 Typophile pages vertically.
Thanks with Flowers

Thanks Riccardo. I've been playing with your code and finally figured out why the sidebars were not moving to appropriate places — need the !important tag in there.

Here's what I came up with for my 1680x1050 screen:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("www.typophile.com") {

html
{text-align: center;}
#wrapper
{text-align: left;
margin: auto;}

#sidebar-right
{position:absolute;
left:1340px!important;}

#sidebar-left
{position:absolute;
left:952px !important;}


That's my first time doing anything with CSS, (I didn't even know you could have user stylesheets) so this is probably quite poor/untidy. Sidebar-left takes care of the Prolific Posters and Wiki Recent Edits sidebars.

Cleaning up the HTML/CSS for Typophile doesn’t really seem like that big a job. I mean, the structure is pretty simple. I assume it’s a bit of a mess with all the extra features added over the years, yes, but you could easily think of the current site as a mock-up in Photoshop. For centering a fixed width div tag inside the body tag, try margin:auto;.

What happened to the text size, btw?

I'm not a programmer, but even I could tell the CSS has been bolted together over the years: it looks horrendous. It would seem easier to rip it all out and start again.

I’m apparently dyslectic and I can’t edit my previous post.

"Cleaning up the HTML/CSS for Typophile doesn’t really seem like that big a job"

It's always a big job. Most sites are rendering the HTML from a back end system that isn't always the easiest thing to change.

Typically, it's easier to start over from scratch rather than to 'clean up'.

"Can’t be more than a days work."

That sounds like a clientsfromhell.net quote. ;)

That sounds like a clientsfromhell.net quote. ;)

I’m not trying to sound smart or anything, but this really isn’t that big a job. Obviously, some of the HTML might be generated by the back end system but the main structure probably isn’t. Even so, if Typophile use PHP or ASP, the back end system typically does not generate the HTML — it would rather loop/reuse snippets of code from the HTML files. What the biggest problem usually is with old systems is the mess of conflicting CSS styles that have accumulated over the years.

Nina, obviously not. That was only a comment to Bendy, but I see he's figured that one out himself.

Yes, maybe I am. I have the bad habit of speaking before thinking :/