Need help with Wordpress Template please

Would like to enhance a wordpress template

[stfarm]

Hi gals & guys,

I hope you can help me out. I am using the following wordpress template on my site
And I would like to make the main content area a lot larger, maybe even the columns. But at the moment, I am not friends with CSS, and I do not know which settings I need to change. Can somebody please assist me, or point me into the right direction?
I asked the owner, but it seems that he is not available.

Thank you very much,

Steve

[edited by: jatar_k at 5:52 pm (utc) on July 22, 2005]
[edit reason] removed urls [/edit]

[tedster]

This is general advice, not specific to WordPress. They have extensive Help files and forums online that may also be valuable to you.

What you need to do is examine the HTML forst to find the div that you want to make larger - it should have an id= attribute and the open/colse tags will enclose the content section.

Then open up the css file in a text editor and find that id name -- if your HTML says <div id="content"> then in the CSS the rules for that div will look something like this, with a "#" before the name to show that itr is an ID (a class uses a period instead of the hex sign.)

#content {
[rules are here]
}

In those rules should be a width rule, and this is probably what you want to change.

You may also get a helpful orientation to CSS from our CSS Crash Course [webmasterworld.com]

[stfarm]

Thank you, I forgot to mention that I have been messing with this code for while. When I change that number, everything else goes nuts.
I was looking for some specific help on this css. Should I post the code?

Steve

[tedster]

Yes, please post the relevant css - but not the whole file.

Show us WHICH number you are changing - just that ID and set of rules - and then perhaps some more information about exactly what "everything else goes nuts" means. Which divs change the way they look and how that changes.