Page Template Help

I had made a post earlier and eventually found the answer i was looking for in page templates. However, as with anything else one obstacle conquered leads to yet another obstacle.

What i’m attempting to do is easy enough to explain but seems to be harder to execute.

link: https://cubicle101.com/cubicle101/?page_id=4

On that particular page I’m trying to get the content area to widen out to fill up the rest of the page and allowing for the full comic strip to be viewed without scrolling.

I’ve already created the template page and have it uploaded and working with the exception of the content windows lack of girth and there are no values present in the page template. Page code is as follows.

<?php
/*
Template Name: comicpage
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class=”art-contentLayout”>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/sidebar1.php’); ?><div class=”art-content”>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class=”art-Post”>
<div class=”art-Post-tl”></div>
<div class=”art-Post-tr”></div>
<div class=”art-Post-bl”></div>
<div class=”art-Post-br”></div>
<div class=”art-Post-tc”></div>
<div class=”art-Post-bc”></div>
<div class=”art-Post-cl”></div>
<div class=”art-Post-cr”></div>
<div class=”art-Post-cc”></div>
<div class=”art-Post-body”>
<div class=”art-Post-inner art-article”>
<?php ob_start(); ?>
<h2 class=”art-PostHeaderIcon-wrapper”>
<img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/PostHeaderIcon.png” width=”32″ height=”21″ alt=”” />
<span class=”art-PostHeader”>” rel=”bookmark” title=”<?php printf(__(‘Permanent Link to %s’, ‘kubrick’), the_title_attribute(‘echo=0’)); ?>”>
<?php the_title(); ?>
</span>
</h2>
<?php $metadataContent = ob_get_clean(); ?>
<?php if (trim($metadataContent) != ”): ?>
<div class=”art-PostMetadataHeader”>
<?php echo $metadataContent; ?>

</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php $icons = array(); ?>
<?php if (!is_page()): ?><?php ob_start(); ?><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/PostDateIcon.png” width=”17″ height=”18″ alt=”” />
<?php the_time(__(‘F jS, Y’, ‘kubrick’)) ?>
<?php $icons[] = ob_get_clean(); ?><?php endif; ?><?php if (!is_page()): ?><?php ob_start(); ?><?php _e(‘Author’, ‘kubrick’); ?>: “><?php the_author() ?>
<?php $icons[] = ob_get_clean(); ?><?php endif; ?><?php if (current_user_can(‘edit_post’, $post->ID)): ?><?php ob_start(); ?><?php edit_post_link(__(‘Edit’, ‘kubrick’), ”); ?>
<?php $icons[] = ob_get_clean(); ?><?php endif; ?><?php if (0 != count($icons)): ?>
<div class=”art-PostHeaderIcons art-metadata-icons”>
<?php echo implode(‘ | ‘, $icons); ?>

</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<div class=”art-PostContent”>
<?php if (is_search()) the_excerpt(); else the_content(__(‘Read the rest of this entry »’, ‘kubrick’)); ?>

</div>
<div class=”cleared”></div>
<?php ob_start(); ?>
<?php $icons = array(); ?>
<?php if (!is_page()): ?><?php ob_start(); ?><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/PostCategoryIcon.png” width=”18″ height=”18″ alt=”” />
<?php printf(__(‘Posted in %s’, ‘kubrick’), get_the_category_list(‘, ‘)); ?>
<?php $icons[] = ob_get_clean(); ?><?php endif; ?><?php if (!is_page() && get_the_tags()): ?><?php ob_start(); ?><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/PostTagIcon.png” width=”18″ height=”18″ alt=”” />
<?php the_tags(__(‘Tags:’, ‘kubrick’) . ‘ ‘, ‘, ‘, ‘ ‘); ?>
<?php $icons[] = ob_get_clean(); ?><?php endif; ?><?php if (!is_page() && !is_single()): ?><?php ob_start(); ?><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/PostCommentsIcon.png” width=”18″ height=”18″ alt=”” />
<?php comments_popup_link(__(‘No Comments »’, ‘kubrick’), __(‘1 Comment »’, ‘kubrick’), __(‘% Comments »’, ‘kubrick’), ”, __(‘Comments Closed’, ‘kubrick’) ); ?>
<?php $icons[] = ob_get_clean(); ?><?php endif; ?><?php if (0 != count($icons)): ?>
<div class=”art-PostFooterIcons art-metadata-icons”>
<?php echo implode(‘ | ‘, $icons); ?>

</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php $metadataContent = ob_get_clean(); ?>
<?php if (trim($metadataContent) != ”): ?>
<div class=”art-PostMetadataFooter”>
<?php echo $metadataContent; ?>

</div>
<?php endif; ?>

</div>

</div>
</div>

<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

</div>

</div>
<div class=”cleared”></div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

if i remove the “<div class=”art-contentLayout”>” line from the top of the page the content window corrects it’s size, however it drops to the bottom of the page and the sidebar widgets now span the width of the page as well.

All I need is for the content window to size itself to fill up the space that sidebar2 is not taking up on the right of the page as it’s been removed from the template page.

I’m currently using a 3rd party script in the page post, which is just a php include plugin. is it possible i need to define the table width in true HTML in the post?