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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 1670666" data-attributes="member: 1264">[Edit: See below for an easy to implement solution to this problem]Hi Morrus & Co... Could you guys please, PLEASE do something about all the wasted space between and around columns on the EN World front page? I seem to be using browser windows that are slightly narrower than many sites expect (typically around 660 pixels wide or so). For the vast majority of sites this is not a problem. Sure, I occasionally have to scroll a bit to the right to see all of a right-hand column on sites like cnn.com (or for example, to see all of the add on top of this page). But typically only an inch or so, and my window is wide enough to notice if I'm missing anything important off the right edge.However, because the EN World frontpage resizes to the width of the browser window, and because of its *very* liberal use of space between columns, if there happens to be a news topic with two levels of indents plus an icon to the right of it (such as todays articles about the Worldwide D&D Game Day, or about Dungeon #114 and #115), there is only barely enough space left to print one word per line, spreading out the paragraphs over entire pages.Needlesstosay,thisis veryannoying!...It seems like some of the primary offenders are the following three lines:<div style="padding: 0px 25px 0px 25px">   This puts a 25 pixel border around the entire page<td width="15">   15 pixels of empty space between columns<table width="80%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" border="2"   ARGH! I figure with those three, I'm already losing close to 1/5 of the useable width of my screen! And on top of all that, add in two 35 pixel indents, and a 60 pixel icon the text doesn't seem to flow around correctly, and there's almost not space left in the central column for any actual content!I would strongly suggest you take some hints from other news sites, and use the space on the front page a *lot* more economical. Not that you need to cram things in as closely as cnn.com, but a little consideration for users with narrower browser windows would be greatly appreciated! Heck, just changing the indent spacing, or making the text flow *around* the topic icons would already solve much of the problem. Reducing the spacing in those three lines I quoted above already reduces the length of the front page by several pages on my window...</blockquote>

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