Remove or resize former ad spaces

How can I remove or resize the blank space that is left once I turned off google ads? My forum: http://www.beadthrilled.com/ The skin is Matei's 'Nice Green'.
I would like to have the (content of the) columns lifted to right beneath the site's navigation.


Thanks in advance!

Use CSS and do a negative margin-top

Thanks for the suggestion but it didn't make any difference...
I'm on Phpbb3 btw.

Any ideas on how to handle this?
TIA!

Add this to your CSS:

Code:

.navbar {position:relative;}

Now find the #search-box CSS rule and replace this:

Code:

position:relative;bottom:-25px;

with this:

Code:

position:absolute;top:-30px;

That should remove the gap.

Actually the BEST solution to remove the gap is to get rid of the search box, since it's not needed. That can be accomplished using this CSS:

Code:

#search-box {display:none;}

Wow! That works! Thank you!