Thank you for coming back to me. I have sorted the menu but not the left panel question.
If you look at my draft website…www.brytbiz.com – there are two components to the page
– the left side that has the content, and
– the right side that has the widgets (side bar)
If I change the default layout (under Appearance|theme options) to be just one-column no sidebar – it removes the side bar okay, but it reduces the size of the whole page to just the size of the content part – instead of giving me the extra space with the side bar removed.
Hope that helps, there is no option to upload an image of the two scenarios on here.