[popowich]

You can do much better than that. Fill in the whitespace with some google adsense.

Here is what I do in my SHOWTHREAD template, under the $navbar line near the top, to make the best use of the space:

<table width="100%" border="1">
<tr>

<td width="182">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-4465038208149639";
google_ad_slot = "3543745119";
google_ad_width = 180;
google_ad_height = 150;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
</td>

<td width="100%">
<center>
<h1 class="myh1">$thread[title]</h1>
<h2 class="myh2">$foruminfo[title_clean]</h2>
</center>
</td>

</tr>
</table>
<br/>