Right side column - 100% width footer?

I posted this at vb.com as well but hopefully someone here can bail me out of hours of staring at the code and breaking my poor forums.

I've read the tutorials on here and they're all seemingly for adding a RSC that spans the entire length of the page. Has anyone done it so that it's only the height of the actual forums? Using Kerry-Anne's USC mod over at vb.org, the RSC starts exactly where I want it to and looks great (See attachment). The problem is that my footer, what's going on box, etc, is compressed to the width of the forum tables themselves, leaving blank space to the side of the WGO box, under the column itself.

I'm looking for the exact TOP setup that Kerry-Anne's USC provides, but I want the colum to stop before my footer, and have the footer span 100% width, same as the navbar.

So:

----------navbar---------
----forums ----- rsc -----
---------footer ----------

If anyone can sort out the code for this and hook me up, Boofo will email you a box of puppies*.

*This might be a lie, but I always miss him on MSN so I can't confirm it.

[Lynne]

I already responded to your post over on vb.com

Thanks Lynne. I'm actually just looking to do it manually without the hack, since it's just one column that I'm looking for. I've tried colspanning (is that a word? ) the footer cells but they don't do the trick.

It seems like it's more two tables side by side with this hack, whereas I'm just looking to (and failing at) adding another column next to the forum tables.

[Lynne]

Do you have a link to a page you are trying this on?

[Gio~Logist]

Start your table at the end of the the navbar template, or after $navbar. End it at the beginning of the footer template or before $footer. Hope that helps : )

Originally Posted by Lynne

Do you have a link to a page you are trying this on?

Now in my sig.

[Lynne]

Hmmm, am I missing something cuz that page looks like how I pictured you were wanting it to look.

This is what it looks like now:



Thanks to my keen photoshop skills (!!) this is what I'd like to happen, with the WGO box spanned 100%:



Alas, I can't figure it out!

[Lynne]

You realize you could end up with a huge gap between the Random Thumbs and the What's Going On? block. See my image for what I see on your forums page:

Yeah - I'll size that right column accordingly if I can ever sort this one out.