home.tpl setup content left, content right

Hi,

I am working on home.tpl in 1.5.2.1
I am using the default template and have renamed it as per the tutes.
I have the slideshow in content top.
I'd like featured and specials to share the 'row' ie content left, content right.
What happens is featured becomes a vertical list so the design looks really bad.
There are only 3 items in featured so the whole thing should fit in one row.

I have editted the home.tpl to read:
<?php echo $header; ?>
<div id="content"><?php echo $content_top; ?>
<h1 style="display: none;"><?php echo $heading_title; ?></h1>
<?php echo $content_bottom; ?></div>
<?php echo $column_left; ?><?php echo $column_right; ?>
<?php echo $footer; ?>

Thanks if you can help!

ok, i changed the stylesheet.css for #content_right, I deleted the width parameter and everything is appearing to work as I want it to.
The problem will be how alternative browsers read it I guess.

Is there another way to do this?