Hi everyone!

I'm having a problem and am at the hair-ripping stage.

I am trying to configure my Mambo template's frontpage.
My template is rhuk planetfall, and there is a main content space (that I believe is called content_box), and 2 columns of modules.

I got rid of 1 column of modules because I didn't need it, and I wanted more space for my content_box.

BUT, the wretched thing is staying at its old width, when there were 2 columns there.
I made sure that all my unpublished modules were not still positioned in the column that is gone.

I have also extensively tried to change the code in Dreamweaver, in both my CSS file and my index.php file.

In my index.php file, this is one thing I tried to do:

<td valign="top" class="content_box">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr valign="top">

I changed the 100% value to the value I want (644), and that didn't work.

Then, I spotted the following line of code:

<!-- main content area -->
<div class="contentblock" id="contentblock" style="width:<?php echo 635 - ( 151 * ( $collspan_offset-1 ) ) ?>">

There is a red line under the code in Dreamweaver, starting at width and ending at the >immediately after the last ? (which means that there is an error in the code, but I don't know enough to fix it).

My question is this:
Does the code mean that there is a formula to calculate the value of the width for my content_box?
635 is close-ish to the 644 I want for the width of my content_box.
151 is I think the width of 1 column of modules.

Does the formula take into account how many columns I have and distributes the remaining width to my content_box accordingly?

But that doesn't seem to make sense, because the total width of my template is 798, not 635; so there is no sense in retracting the width of 1 column to the width of my content_box, is there?

I have tried everything I could think of, I tried changing the width values in my CSS sheet, I tried changing values in my index.php, but NOTHING IS WORKING!!!

Does someone have any idea what that line of code means, and how I can change the code to make it do what I want it to do?

It should be simple to change the width of 1 component of my frontpage, shouldn't it?

    I changed templates to one that had a single column and a big content box to start with.

    It looks much better too...

    If anyone has an idea about what was happening to my old template, please feel free to post, as it will be nice to read a solution to many hours of frustration!!

    But for now, I'm sorted 🙂

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