By Amema on Saturday, 07 November 2015
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The width of text should not be broader than 60 to 80 letters for good readability. The toolbar of EasyBlog is broader when it's in an "unfolded" state. For narrower texts the icons disappear and a simple "Navigation" icon is visible. I find this more and more frustrating.

The "Navigation" view looks pretty good, until you want to use the toolbar. Clicking "Navigation" unfolds a menu with all the items, and for small screens this is cumbersome. I'm testing EasyBlog for a bunch of older people, some with bad eyes. They tend to use older computers with small screens, and the resolution set on low so they only see parts of the homepage at any given time. When the toolbar menu fills their screen they get lost.

Is there a way to have two lines in the toolbar, or turn off some items? I assume the "Tags" icon can go, because my readers are confused enough with the categories. I will not be adding tags to the cocktail anyway. The search field might be somewhere else than in the toolbar itself.
Ok. I found where to turn off some toolbar items, but the general irk remains. Would it be a "simple" template problem?
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Monday, 09 November 2015 04:58
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Hello Amema,

I'm sorry but what did you mean by general irk? Can you provide us the URL to the Easyblog page so that we can have a better look here? Please advise.
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Monday, 09 November 2015 11:23
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Go to http://bonnarlunda.se/index.php/skrivet

At first there is a toolbar. Within a few seconds the icons disappear to be replaced by one single word - Navigation.

Click on Navigation, and a dropdown will emerge. On a "normal" screen (17+ inches or so) one can see that a dropdown is opening. But on smaller screens or screens with bigger resolution, the black mass of the dropdown menu fills the screen. It confuses some users and I want to find a nicer way to do this, so I started to play around with a wider page but shortly realized that the text would be too massive to read easily. A column should not contain more than 60, maybe up to 80 signs to be readily readable, so I want to stick to that format.

In some instances (like at esperantonordio.org/nova, a test page I currently construct to see if an organisation I'm a member of would like to start using EasyBlog) it's possible to unpublish some icons, and it works as it should. But in my old, personal page bonnarlunda.se - for which I initially bought EB - I really don't want to do that. But will, if nothing else works. I think I would like the toolbar to devide itself into two tiers instead of only showing Navigation.
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Tuesday, 10 November 2015 05:51
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Hey Amema,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is actually a public day off for us here. Ah, the reason that the toolbar gets modified to the responsive "menu" is actually because the width area is actually pretty small.

You can go to the back end settings of EasyBlog under Settings > Layout and disable the option "Enable responsive layout" if you don't want the toolbar to automatically resize itself.
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Tuesday, 10 November 2015 15:51
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