Hi Flora,

Those templates you see on the left, middle and right are inside div tags.

One reason why they get pushed down like that could be because the width of one or two div tags is greater than the others.

Firefox has this cool extension called MeasureIt, it allows one to measure the width of components on your web page. After you install the MeasureIt extension, you can measure the *original* width of those components.

My first guess is that the width of AdSense ads you are using is wider than the width of the original div tags provided by blogger.

So, after getting the original width compare the width with that of AdSense ad formats, and put the largest possible AdSense ad that fits in that space.

Another reason why the div might be forced to be wider is if, you add very long word with no space, for example jdfalfjldkfjadl;fkjdsfkljsflkjdflkafjdlksfdf , if the width of that word exceeds the width of the div then the div tends to become wider.

I personally prefer having my own website to using external blogging services, because I will have full control over the HTML. But the downside of that is that I am fully responsibile for the hosting cost and the revenue it makes.