Changing the blog template

I'm getting frustrated with blogger. It took me forever to figure out how to post code as blogger doesn't have builtin code tags like most forums do. Now, if I have a long string, it gets cut off on the right side by the sidebar. Why doesn't it word wrap it?

There is probably a simple solution but I don't know, or care about, CSS enough to make the blog look pretty. So here we are with a new template. Nice and plain.

Old style. notice how it cut off half of the scp command


New style. Scp command is there, if you scroll.