Title: coding problem need help
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# coding problem need help

 *  [aprilr79](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aprilr79/)
 * (@aprilr79)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-problem-need-help/)
 * I need to know how to change the content size of my template layout with out 
   loosing my sidebar. I have tried to fix it myself and loose the sidebar every
   time. I am new at coding the layout never tried to change one before. If you 
   look at this page [http://cooltoysforkids.info/my-cool-toy-store/](http://cooltoysforkids.info/my-cool-toy-store/)
   you will see my problem. I need the page wider because it is not showing all 
   the plug-in that I have installed.
 * not sure if this help but this is the content are code, what do i need to change.
 *     ```
       /* CONTENT AREA */
       .contentArea {
       	width: 100%;
       	background-color: #f0eff0;
       	background-image: url(images/content_bkgd_tile.jpg);
       	background-repeat: repeat-x;
   
       }
   
       .contentArea .container {
       	padding-top: 30px;
       	padding-bottom: 30px;
       	background-image: url(images/content_bkgd.jpg);
       	background-repeat: no-repeat;
       }
   
       .contentleft {
       	width: 650px;
       	padding-left: 40px;
       	padding-right: 40px;
       	float: left;
       	border-right-style: solid;
       	border-right-width: 1px;
       }
   
       .contentright {
       	padding-top: 20px;
       	float: left;
       	padding-left: 30px;
       	width: 210px;
       }
   
       .imageright {
   
       	margin-left: 5px;
       	float: right;
   
       }
   
       #search {
       	margin: 0 0 1.4em 0;
       }
   
       #searchbutton {
       	margin-left:7px;
       }
       ```
   

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 *  [mnasir79](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mnasir79/)
 * (@mnasir79)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-problem-need-help/#post-2345842)
 * IT Shows the error
    **Oops! That page wasn’t found!**
 *  [fyllhund](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fyllhund/)
 * (@fyllhund)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-problem-need-help/#post-2345853)
 * and your sidebar is where?
 * The easy thing would be just to do a `width="76,5%"` on the container ( assuming
   your sidebar isn’t inside that one) and then just making the sidebars width into`
   width="23%"`
 * something along those lines
 * and then just keep trying with the widths until you like how it looks. A tip 
   is to use firebug in firefox and try your css changes. I.e you type in the code
   and the page changes in your browser

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-problem-need-help/#post-2345853)
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