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I have been fiddling with this for some time. Pretty neat template and for the most part will do what I need.

I am curious about something though.

sidebar and content are wrapped by main body and i understand why they are percentage of the main body to be the same width as the right column when published

however i find it odd that if you change the percentage of the left column, keeping in proportions with how the template is set up that it will not decrease in size when the right module is published.

for instance,

the mainbody is 80% of the wrap when right is published

left is 33.5% and content is 66.5% of the mainbody.

so if i decrease left to 23.5% and increase mainbody to 76.5% I would expect that when the right column is not published that left would decrease to take up 23.5% of mainbody but it stays the same size.

any ideas on this one?

The pecentages refer to the imediate parent of the item. The way you have it set up, the mainbody will always be 80% of the wrap, regardless of wheather you publish the right column (#sidebar-2)
and publishing it or not will therefore have no effect on either #sidebar or #content.

To make the right column collapse you can change your template index.php file so it says something like:

  if ( mosCountModules( 'right' ) ) {
?>