Question How to Adjust Column Widths

Grumblemarc - thanks for the feedback. I totally agree with you. I did not ask anyone to redesign my site. I have been learning to fish. I have gotten Firebug and am learning to use it. All I wanted was the place where the column widths are defined and then I can go and make the changes I want.

From a usability perspective I think the present layout is not optimal and I thought that maybe my question would also be seen as a suggestion for improvement. For example - the FORUM column which is so wide is a waste of space. Anyone that is on a forum for more than three sessions will know what each forum is and will not look at it anymore but the LAST POST column shows the latest post which is of significant interest.

Next thing of interest might be to define someone how many posts to include in the LATEST POST column. Maybe up to three posts where you just see the post title and nothing else.

Just some ideas

SOZZLED - BINGO! That was it!
Thank You very much!
I don't think I would have ever found that with Firebug.

My design now is so much nicer!

bubbawubba wrote:

From a usability perspective I think the present layout is not optimal and I thought that maybe my question would also be seen as a suggestion for improvement. For example - the FORUM column which is so wide is a waste of space. Anyone that is on a forum for more than three sessions will know what each forum is and will not look at it anymore but the LAST POST column shows the latest post which is of significant interest.

Next thing of interest might be to define someone how many posts to include in the LATEST POST column. Maybe up to three posts where you just see the post title and nothing else.

I'm pleased to have been able to help.

"From a usability perspective" depends entirely on the combination of what you choose for your [Joomla] site template and Kunena forum template.

With regard to your questions about "limiting the number of posts in the LATEST POST column" (the meaning of which, I confess, eludes me) although off-topic, you might experiment with the Kunena setting (Components » Kunena Forum » Frontend) Threads Per Page to achieve what you're after.

Let me explain a bit better about the NEW POSTS idea I have

On this page www.kunena.com/forum?func=listcat

In the LAST POST column it has the title of the one last post

What I think might be better is to change LAST POST to NEWEST POSTS
and then have potentially 3, 4 or 5 titles for the newest posts.

Why do this? Well on the main page it shows quickly that there is activity happening in the forums.

That is terrible! I had forgotten how much of the CSS and logic was intermingled. That kind of stuff should mostly/only be found in the CSS. I can see why one would have trouble using FireBug to find things when they aren't where you expect them to be.