The South Beath Loop Diet: Posts get thinner and thinger and thinner….

I’m not sure what my malfunction is, but my posts are currently on a nasty diet it seems, e.g. Each post is inheriting the porproption width of the last. Thus if the first post is 80% of X, the next post is 80% of the post before which is 80% of x making the second post 72% or so of X (or something like that).

I want them (the posts) to all be the same width, i think i’ve done soemthing wrong in the index.php file.

this is my code (help is very appreciated -i’m new to this stuff, be kind 😉

<?php get_header();?>

<div id="page">
	<?php if(have_posts()): //boolean function - returns true or false
		                    // semicolon replaces curly brace statements ?>
	<?php while (have_posts()): //boolean function - returns true or false ?>
	<!-- HTML HERE -->
	<!-- 'right' is the end of the file name, e.g. sidebar-right.php  -->
	<?php get_sidebar("right"); ?>	

	<div id="content" class="left"><!-- begin 'content' -->
		<?php the_post(); ?>
			<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"
				<?php post_class("standard_post"); //give us all of wordpress classes ?>>

				<h2><a>"><?php the_title(); //wp_function ?></a></h2>
				<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
				<p><?php the_content(); //gets the wsyiwig content editor ?></p>
				<p>Written by <?php the_author(); ?></p>
				<p><small><time datetime="<?php the_time('Y-M-D'); ?>"><?php the_time('M j'); ?></time></small></p>

				<?php comments_number("0 comments", "1 comment", "% comments") ?>

			</article>

		<?php endwhile; else: ?>
					<!-- Combines endwhile + else statement -->
					<!-- HTML HERE -->
					<p>Add Posties</p>
		<?php endif; ?>

		</div><!-- end 'content' -->
	</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<?php get_footer();?>

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Thanks you one and all.