Change Width Of The Site?

[harry2]

Hi. I would like to change the width of the site because it is right at the end of the screen and I would like to bring it in a few inches. How do I edit to change this?

thank you.

[razaro]

What is your screen size ?
You could change global.css this is from default theme

#page  {
margin:0 auto 2px;
text-align:left;
width:980px;
}
#left_column {
   clear: left;
   width: 191px;
   margin-right: 21px;
   overflow: hidden
}
#center_column {
   width: 556px;
   margin: 0 0 30px 0;
   overflow: hidden
}
#right_column {
   width: 191px;
   margin-left: 21px;
   overflow: hidden
}

And few more places

[harry2]

my screen size is 800/600. I have tried to change that file b4 but it does not bring the site sway from the very edge of the screen. It just made the side oxed move in different places?

[razaro]

That is little low resolution for today standards but you could try to make fluid layout like for start

#page  {
margin:0 2%;
text-align:left;
width:95%;
}
#left_column {
   clear: left;
   width: 20%;
   margin-right: 1%;
   overflow: hidden
}
#center_column {
   width: 55%;
   margin: 0 0 1% 0;
   overflow: hidden
}
#right_column {
   width:20%;
   margin-left: 1%;
   overflow: hidden
}

And that is just beginning of changes.
You could also try to find theme that could be used in 800x600.