1 Simple Question! (Joomla)(Sizing-Customizing)

[mitchman]

Hey there.
First off, you guys rock. You've helped me so much in the process of building my website, and i would never consider another forum software again. But i've got another quick question.
Ok.
I have Joomla. and its bridged with SMF.
And, if you would take a look here: http://crysisbb.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26 [nofollow]
you will see that the wrapped feature squishes the forum's width to something thats rather, unpleasent. So my first question to you gods would be:
How can i make the total width wider?
Now, at first i thought i knew how to do this, so i added "Width: 1000px" to the bottom of the Body section in the CSS, But after i upload it, it just pushes the page to the left a bit (But not resizing it at all) I then add align: 'center' to it which pushed it back into the center but it always remains the same size (800px wide).

This would be me greatly!
   

[Orstio]

You've got your main links in the top menu.  Do you really need the menu in the side bar on the forum page?  If not, then go to your Modules, and set them to not appear on the forum page.

[Kindred]

also, in many fixed width templates, the template author has defined ALL of the columns as fixed width... so increasing the body size won't do anything...   you have to increase the size of the "main_content" (or whatever your particular template calls the main section) as well.

[Orstio]

What Kindred says is true.  I just looked at your HTML output, and your Joomla template has all fixed-width tables:

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<td valign="top" width="590">

That's the td that contains your forum.  In many templates, the sizes are defined in CSS classes instead of coded into the HTML that way.

[mitchman]

You've got your main links in the top menu.  Do you really need the menu in the side bar on the forum page?  If not, then go to your Modules, and set them to not appear on the forum page.

well i tried, but appearently there all part of 'mainmenu' and it tells me i cant delete it cause its a core menu. Whatever is in main menu equals whatever is in the top bar. Is there any other way to manually delete them, in the code somewhere, i really hate the look anyways,
Also, could i position the 'login' information above the forum, that way it can stretch out back to normal? I wicked hope both can be done. Thanks a lot

[mitchman]

nvm its all good i found a sweet layout thats wide enough because it stretches instead of squishes, plus it has a little flash in it, JACKPOT BABY! thanks i love you guys who made SMF.