How to widen my blog

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  berrern · Member · May 12, 2010 at 10:55 am

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  Hi,

  I’m the owner of the blog at http://honningpupp.com.

  Originally, the blog is 760 pixels wide, of which the ‘post area’ is 450 pixels wide. Now, I’m using an external service in order to post blogs via e-mail (Posterous), however when posting pictures, Posterous automatically scales them to a width of 500 pixels – and this can’t be changed.

  Because of this, I want to widen my blog by 50 pixels, so that the total blog will be 810 pixels wide, and the post area 500 pixels.

  Now, I went into the CSS stylesheet, and changed all the relevant width parameters I could find, as well as re-adjusting the header and footer images (making them 50 pixels wider).
  The ‘width’ parameters I changed, was:
  #headerimg: 740 to 790 pixels
  #page: 760 to 810 pixels
  #header: 758 to 808 pixels
  .narrowcolumn: 450 to 500 pixels
  .widecolumn: 450 to 500 pixels
  #footer: 760 to 810 pixels

  What’s weird is that only the header and footer widths have changed, the body (main part) of the blog still remains ‘narrow’. Have a look: http://www.honningpupp.com

  I’m not really an expert in HTML or CSS, and so I hope someone can guide me towards which variables I need to change in order to widen the main area of my blog.

  Any help would be much appreciated!!

  Thanks in advance :-)

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