Portfolio page template problem plus stopping featured image displaying

Hi,

I am responsible for looking after a website covering a collection of inns throughout the UK. At the moment, the way of looking at the full list of inns and filtering it is a little clumsy.

I am sure the portfolio feature will help me achieve a better result – but I am having problems.

What I am seeking to achieve on each portfolio page is a recreation of a standard page that already exists (for example ). Basically the page starts with a slider then breaks in to a couple of columns which contain text, images, widgets etc.

However when I copy the code in to a portfolio page I get this:

What do I need to do to the template in the CSS to stop the content going in to a narrow column? Also, I assume I need to remove the code to stop the display of the featured image on the portfolio item page – which code do I need to take out?

Thanks in advance.

James