snow77 wrote:
just a few suggestions, don't know exactly if it will help or mess up things, it's hard to advise like this.

- I can't seem to detect where you have applied the width of the main page area. You have it enclosed in a div tag like this:

.....

(I think you tried to do that with the style
.maincontent {width: 100%;float: none;}

it could be if you take the style away from that table and make it like this:

#maincontent {width: #pixelofdesigntotalwidth px}
and add that to the above div like this

I don't know about the float part, I'm still a little clumsy with that)

that way you give that div a style that defines the total width of design. Then you apply width's to the left and right columns as you wish, but generally no width is applied to centercolumn like you have: td#centercolumn {width:545px;}, it normally stretches normally without applying a size to it

and in this style you have:

table {width: 68%; margin: 5; padding: 5; font-size: small}

normally table should be left always to 100%.

This one may be the one causing for the forum to shrink.

you can try this out but keep a backup of the original one you have now in case it messes up.