Horizontal ticker block

I am using the Bartik theme. I increased the width of the page to 1260px. I placed the horizontal ticker inside the feature area of Bartik. I set up the horizontal ticker using views to move right to left.

What I noticed is that the ticker has only a width of 600px. So the ticker starts in the middle and progresses towards the left.

I want to increase the width of the ticker so it will progress from the right side of the page to the left side of the page. so....i want to set the css width the 1260px.

I am not sure how to do this. I checked all of the files but nothing allows me to change the width. The most obverse code would be in the file "views.ticker.scroller.css" in the following section:

.views-scroller-horizontal-container {
width: 600px;
height: 40px;
overflow: hidden;
}

Changing the width from 600px to 1260px did not increase the width of the ticker.

I flushed the cashes so I know the page has been refreshed but there is no change in the width.

Any idea how to fix this?

Also.... How can I increase the size of the font... the ticker font is a little small for my liking.

Thanks,

Spineless