Web pages try to fit whatever we cram into them!  They are like a dream suit case that just keeps getting bigger when you put in more clothes.


But when you put in something that is too wide (like a snow ski) and it can't wrap to the next line, you will get the dreaded scroll bar on the bottom of the browser window.

To avoid this, you can vacation in a warm climate and only pack swim suits.  Oh, wait... wrong train...getting back on the right track...

Be careful of the width of text and pictures that you put into your entries.  Large photos are sometimes to blame.  (See post on how-to blog with photos.)  But, most often it is the wonderful links that you want to share with your friends!  Links don't have spaces within them so they wont split in the middle and wrap to the next line (unless you are on a yahoo group, but that is another entry's topic).

You can avoid making your blog too wide when you have a long link to display in one of two ways.  After you paste the link, highlight it and use a smaller font OR use the method described in how-to blog with links and use words that you want the search engines to index.  Either way will give the browser a narrower item to process and your blog will remain bottom-scroll bar free.