Theme width

Short answer is, it depends on what you classify as "easy".

You can do it, but you will need to understand how the layout works - how to use the layout framework (a set of CSS classes - look in layout-DEV.css) and how to modify them in the HTML and in the function that controls the width of the main content column (function newswire_col_width).

If that's easy for you it should be a snap!

Simply changing the width to 1024px will break the layout.

Closing, no feedback.

i'm interested in something similar, though would prefer to see a version2 of the theme offering fluid width - making 2nd column (main content area) fluid...would this involve similar lifting?

The CSS framework is essentially incompatible with liquid layouts, for what its worth I have started work on a CSS framework that should support both fluid and fixed width layouts - this will be some weeks (possibly months) away and to be frank, Newswire will never use it, although I will be releasing an all new theme system that does - it will be called Netlogic so stay tuned.