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Originally Posted by Simon (Post 391298)

One quick suggestion...

If you want to use a 3-column theme with your posts appearing in the middle column, you can look for a theme that uses CSS to let you to put the content of your center column first in the source code instead of after all the stuff in your left-side menu.

FWIW

I think I've figured out how to get stuff where it goes but how can I tell if a theme uses CSS the way you suggest?

....and when I look at the code it's all been compacted up and to the right so I have to scroll waaaaaaay horizontally to look at it. Any way to spread it out vertically without messing things up?

Licker, usually the themes which do that are referred to as "SEO-friendly" or something like that by their creators. It's something that can be done with any number of columns, but the 3-column versions are the ones I've seen most often. Here's one version so you can see how it works.

I've never looked at the theme source code for the theme you mentioned, but as far as the code formatting goes, you should be able to reformat it so that it's easier for you to work with. Just make a copy of the page first and keep that to swap back in case the changing the formatting does screw things up somehow. I have a source format profile in my text editor which lets me look at all code formatted the way I like. Then I can always compact it before uploading if I want to make it hard for others to read. :)

I usually don't mess with the CSS layout that much. For one I am no CSS layout expert. Second, there are differences between FF and IE and trying to get them both to play nice can be a pain. You have to know the little fixes for certain situations. Not to say you can't make little changes, just be aware you might run in to problems. Just from my experience...:)

With that said, there are SO MANY wordpress templates out there, I don't see why can't find one you like. Least find the layout you want, changing colors is pretty easy and your not messing with the layout.

I've seen tons of three column themes, left, right and on both sides. There is something for every one.

You can use the theme viewer at Wordpress and even sort themes to fit your criteria, though it's not real exact on the sort. The only drawback to the theme viewer is that it seems like they don't have many of the higher quality themes.

And of course there is always Google...:)

I am kinda liking compact CSS, don't have to scroll down forever to move around.