Title: resolution maybe?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# resolution maybe?

 *  [darbok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darbok/)
 * (@darbok)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resolution-maybe/)
 * so i did a one click install of wordpress to my website. Looking at the default
   theme I notice its all the way to the left with this empty gap of space to the
   right, then I loaded one of the other pre canned themes which was centered but
   all this unused space to the left and right. Is this my resolution? can I make
   wordpress look bigger to take up the room? Not sure what to do about this.

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 *  [bemdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemdesign/)
 * (@bemdesign)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resolution-maybe/#post-4757319)
 * How much do you know about HTML layout? How much do you know about Cascading 
   Style Sheets? How much do you know about the [Dao of Web Design](http://alistapart.com/article/dao/)?
 * Once you understand these core concepts of the web, then you’ll understand that
   there’s many ways to skin the cat and that the web is…flexible. Yes you can make
   your content spread across the entire browser screen, no margin or padding from
   the edges. But it doesn’t make for a good reading experience. So then you start
   adding padding and margins to make things look nice. And pretty soon you end 
   up at something like twenty-twelve. All the content is in a nice central area,
   with a good width, and some nice padding and margins to make it appear centered
   in the browser window. Or twenty-fourteen which decides that putting all the 
   content into a left-aligned column works best and the stuff to the right can 
   be decorated with background images if so desired.
 * So to sum up – you can do pretty much anything – left aligned, justified, centered,
   no margins or padding, lots of padding and margins, no set widths, very specific
   widths, or more flexible percentage-based widths, or whatever.
 * But just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
 *  Thread Starter [darbok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darbok/)
 * (@darbok)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resolution-maybe/#post-4757320)
 * i know some about html and css and even a little php. I wish I could make twenty-
   fourteen be center aligned, I’m not sure where to edit it in wordpress to make
   that happen.
 *  [JumboClicks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jumboclicks/)
 * (@jumboclicks)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resolution-maybe/#post-4757381)
 * you want to
    text-align: center; margin:0px auto; the top most element
 *  [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resolution-maybe/#post-4757389)
 * Easy answer: you can change it in **/wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen/style.css**
   by adding `margin: 0 auto;` to **.site**. However, once you update the theme,
   your changes will be overwritten.
 * Less easy: you should look into [child themes](https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   when you want to change any CSS in a theme. That way, you can change whatever
   you want and keep the theme up to date.

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