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There are tons of options for slideshows. Rob has a nice assortment of examples on his site under Wikidot Support. He has done quite a bit with different JQuery slideshows which would allow you avoid using any "hosted" solution for your images.

-Ed

Is your site public? Can you point us to the page you're trying to get the slidewhow working on? Changing the width or position of your side navigation requires adjusting the CSS of the #side-bar element. Depending on your application, you could totally hide the side navigation on selected pages by using something like this on the page with the slideshow:

[[module css]]
#main-content {
    margin: auto; /* may or may not need this - depends on your theme */
}
#side-bar {
    display: none;
}
[[/module]]

-Ed

[edit: Sorry, I was being dumb. I see your site is public. I thought the link you provided was to some other 3rd party site. I'll try to look closer at this later tonight or tomorrow. I'm off to a ball game.]

Many of us store our CSS on its own page, often called something like css:theme or admin:theme and tell the site manager to look at that page for the CSS. That way you always have a history of changes and can revert to previous versions when necessary. You put the CSS in a code block starting [[code type="css"]]. In your site manager under Appearance -> Themes you then select external theme and in the box type: /css:theme/code/1 (or whatever page you called it).

All you then need to do is to change/add/delete the CSS on that page and refresh the browser to see the change.

Now the cunning part of all this is that you have can have several codeblocks on that page, each starting [[code type="css"]] and for different categories you can change the CSS. So in the site manager for a specific category you would have /css:theme/code/2, for another one /css:theme/code/3 and so on. This means you can have different designs or header images or other things on your site which are specific to categories. I often have a different header image depending on what the category is.

More information on this is at http://community.wikidot.com/howto:fiddle-with-css-the-easy-way

So when I say "in your CSS" I mean the CSS code that you have on the page you created to hold your site's CSS.

No wonder you've got more white space than before - you've made your side bar wider (to 400px) than it was before (350px). Try something like 100px.