Removed left column, how to widen middle column now?

[SimonZA]

Hey all,

So I wanted to make my default 3 column store layout, into a 2 column layout.

So i moved my category links to the top of the site, below the header, and removed the Category box on the left.

I now have only my center column, and my cart column on the right.

My question is, how to I widen my Main Center column so that it now fills up the space that was previously taken up by the Category block?
Does anybody know the width size that was now lost, and how to add that on to the main column now?

Many thanks!

[SimonZA]

Figured it out.

Went into global.css and changed the width in the following code

#center_column {
   width: 753px;
   margin: 0 0 30px 0;
   overflow: hidden
}

Seems to have done the job! Please correct me if Im wrong.

[Don Camillo]

So how come when I change the middle, left and right collum nothing happens?

Also when I changed some colours when discribed in a post, it didnt change... Just opening it in Notepad++ and then saving the changed file should do it right?

Or is it not possible to modify the mobile theme from templatemonster?... Maybe I am doing something wrong?

[Bewitching]

Don, after saving the updated file, you are uploading it back to your site via ftp, right ?

[Don Camillo]

Hi Bewitching, thanks for the reply.

Uhm, no I just have Notepad opened and I update those files by saving them. I guess I have to upload it by ftp then...
Well I use Wampserver..., but it seems using this I also have to upload it by ftp...

I'll give it a try, thanks.

Don C.

[Don Camillo]

I just tried it, by filezilla, copy to computerbackground, then opened and modified with notepad++, saved, and from computerbackground moved to filezilla.

It didnt make a difference...

I am doing it wrong?

[Bewitching]

In your template file in the css folder, you are modifyinging the global.css file, correct ?

[Don Camillo]

yes thats correct, and many things dont change... strange...

[bkat52]

do you need to clear your cache possibly? i was experiencing some of the same things, where i'd make changes to files but not see them take effect. im not sure if i did it correctly but.... while i was making changes I went to back office>preferences>performance and set force compile to "yes" and cache to "no", and then refreshed my browser and saw all the changes I made take effect.