one thing you could do since we support page specific classes on the body element is make the side column a little wider on the page where you have your contact form.

For example on this site on the Community page I made the right side a little wider (and the center a little narrower) than on other pages like this, main layout settings on top and page specific settings below:

.leftside { float:left; width:28%; margin: 10px 5px 0px 0px;}
.center-nomargins {float:left; width: 100%; margin: 10px 5px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; }
.center-rightandleftmargins {float:left; width: 40%; margin: 10px 5px 0px 5px; }
.center-rightmargin {float:left; width: 70%; margin: 10px 0px 0px 5px;}
.center-leftmargin { float:left; width: 70%; margin: 10px 0px 0px 5px; }
.rightside { float:right; width:28%;  margin: 10px 0px 0px 0px;  }
 

body.community .leftside { float:left; width:28%; margin: 10px 5px 0px 0px;}
body.community  .center-nomargins {float:left; width: 100%; margin: 10px 5px 0px 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; }
body.community  .center-rightandleftmargins {float:left; width: 30%; margin: 10px 5px 0px 5px; }
body.community  .center-rightmargin {float:left; width: 60%; margin: 10px 0px 0px 5px;}
body.community  .center-leftmargin { float:left; width: 60%; margin: 10px 0px 0px 5px; }
body.community  .rightside { float:right; width:31%;  margin: 10px 0px 0px 0px;  }

Hope it helps,

Joe

Also the other choice is to just turn the site to use the text editor, this applies a bit of control over the user which is not a bad thing.

I'm not sure what you mean by that, using a plain textarea does not provide any control at all. Users can enter raw html javascriptscript or whatever. Nothing about any of the wysiwyg editors should be considered as providing any security as far as the content that users can post. They provide no security at all and we do not rely on them for any security. They merely facilitate content editing and while they may try to enforce limits about what the user can enter it is easily bypassed and should not be considered as providing any security. We assume that users can put in bad content and we categorize users as trusted (users that we grant edit permissions to on content features) or untrusted and for places where untrusted users can enter content (forums and blog comments for example) we filter that content before rendering because the content is considered untrusted.

Best,

Joe