I thought I’d picked a nice Blogger theme but no, it’s one of those “I can’t write HTML for crap so I’ll just fix the width of the content” things. Ugh. I HATE fixed-width layouts because it makes my posts look really long and wastes perfectly good screen space.
Luckily, the template wasn’t too complex (ironically, most of the size is taken up in CSS statements) and I managed to shoehorn some lovely CSS I got from somewhere to give me a content section.
I’ve moved the CSS part of the page template to a separate file. It makes a huge difference to the size of my published blog.