Gighalen

relative ;-)

Have you tried setting a fixed width on the right div? Div's have a width of 100% unless otherwise specified.

Youtube would definitely be your best bet. As a rule of thumb, each of your main design elements should be in their own layer, and each layer will translate to it's own div, and may have multiple other divs or other elements contained within that div.

This is debatable, but I generally try to have a fix width of anywhere from 980-1000 with a margin:0px auto; on the wrapping container to center it. I personally don't like using % because if someone happens to be running a tiny resolution it will shoot everything in the foot, where as fixed width forces the page to be that big so the user with the small resolution would get a scroll bar. A hybrid approach that you might consider is using something like jQuery to find the width of the window on page load, and then multiply that number by something like .9 (for 90% width) and apply that finished number as the fixed width of your parent wrapper.