Anybody?

Not exactly rocket science just find the Frame_me mod and embed the soundcloud player in it...

This sounds like a css issue.  Seems like you know how to edit css since you changed the width of the right column, right?

Well not really, like I say Ive pretty much been stabbing in the dark at a lot of issues aswell as looking at a few tuorials etc. Im learning fairly quickly but this one has me totally stumped

You should extend the css view with some of your own css that will make the textearea input stretch.

http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Views#Extending_views

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