Adjusting the width of photos and videos

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  willfulcaboose · Member · May 18, 2011 at 4:53 pm

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  I am new to wordpress.com, so please forgive me in advance for my ignorance!

  I wanted to increase the width of the main column of my website, and basically eliminate the right sidebar. I did this by adding this code to the custom.css editor

  #main {
  width:919px;
  }
  
  #sidebar {
  width:1px;
  }

  It worked! Yay!

  Trouble is, now when I try to center an image, it stays on the left side as if the former width is still in effect. I can’t figure out how to utilize the entire width of the new column for the purposes of centering a photo. In another forum thread someone mentioned that you have to increase the column width for photos and videos separately, but I don’t know where to do this. Please be specific about where I should change these numbers.

  Thank you!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  willfulcaboose · Member · May 18, 2011 at 4:55 pm

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  Oh shoot. Wrong forum.

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  timethief · Member · May 18, 2011 at 5:02 pm

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  No problem Happy blogging. :)