I switched!

Well folks, I've finally upgraded to Blogger Beta. I did this mostly because I'm sick of outages on regular blogger. I don't think I'm going to try to upgrade to the "Layouts" mode just yet. However, if anyone out there is willing to help me do so and help me customize it so it looks like the one I have now, let me know!

*edit* In the spirit of this new beginning, and because I want to take full advantage of the new Blogger, I've decided to switch to the "Layouts" mode in the new beta. I now have a whole new layout, and I think it will work well. Yes, like you, I miss the old layout, but this is a new start for my blog. A new look should come with that new start. But don't worry, I have my old template saved so I can always change back. Or I may even be able to recreate it with the help of others.

Is there anyone out there who'd be willing to give me a little assistance? I want to make the main posts and the sidebar bigger, and I want to make the margins on either side smaller. I'm not sure how to do that, so any help would be much appreciated.

*update* I also need help with autodiscovery and Feedburner in my template! I can't find the place in my template to add that, so any help with THAT would be appreciated as well. For now, though, I'll add the button for Feedburner to my sidebar.