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September 10, 2007

The Three-Column Blues

Can anyone help me with the old three-column set-up? I've read the stuff linked here, but I'm woefully uncertain of my ability to implement it.

I'm sort of at the limit of HTML/CSS/etc abilities when I figured out how to change the colors on the site and put a pair of flags in the banner, so yeah, not capable of figuring it out myself.

Posted by: Country Pundit at 03:59 PM | Comments (56) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 http://glish.com/css/7.asp is the resource I used for mine, though it's a bit fickle in any IE version less than 7.

Posted by: Warren @ at September 10, 2007 08:28 PM

2 Thanks, Warren! One question: Er, where do I put all that, styles-site.css or what?

Posted by: The Country Pundit @ at September 10, 2007 08:33 PM

3 Another place you can steal from is the Minx style switcher demo. This is a tweaked version of the Minx 1.1 layout wizard. It's a very flexible 1, 2 or 3 column layout that works on all browsers, but it does require a small Javascript routine to manage the layout even if you're not doing dynamic switching.

CSS is *horribly* broken for complex layouts, so everything beyond a simple two-column layout involves hackery of one kind or another. For Minx I've managed to distill this down to one click... At least as far as the user is concerned. Took me days of fiddling to get it to work.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at September 11, 2007 07:32 AM

4 Thanks Pixy. I'll give your little gizmo a try. I checked all of the MT forums that I could find about dynamic/static 3-column formats. A few other MuNu folks even sent me their CSS info so that I could try adapting it to my blog. No dice. I'm just glad that I'm not the only one suffering with this issue. Misery and company are still good friends.

Posted by: physics geek @ at September 12, 2007 12:00 PM

5 One more question about the style switcher demo: is there a way to export the resulting CSS, or import the capabilities into my current blog?

Posted by: physics geek @ at September 12, 2007 12:03 PM

6 No dice. I'm just glad that I'm not the only one suffering with this issue. Misery and company are still good friends.

Perhaps we'll stumble through this together. I'm trying to figure out how to import my old color scheme and basic design to the new system. That's proving hard, since I'm not even sure how to mix between stylesheet and index template at the moment.

So yeah, if anyone knows this stuff like the back of their hand and wouldn't mind helping, that'd be great. /Lumbergh>

Posted by: The Country Pundit @ at September 13, 2007 01:49 AM

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