1 Hi Elizabeth.

Basically, the default MT styles specify the widths of columns as percentages of the browser window. If you use numbers of pixels rather than percentages, you'll get a fixed width like the two you link to.

In your stylesheet, try specifying, say, 200px for the sidebar and 400px for the main column widths.

2 Try this for your new site... it's your old CSS with the class names reworked to fit our installation default... we'll have to tweak it out some more, but this will get you started for now... we'll have to do some stuff with your Main Index after we get the kinks worked out here...

Here it is:

body
{
background___: url(http://www.drunkenbee.com/mt-static/images/____36.gif);
background-repeat: repeat;
background-color:transparent;
border-style: none;
font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color:#000;
font-size:11px;
font-weight:normal;
line-height:16px;
}

#content
{
width: 675px;
height: auto;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-top: auto;
margin-bottom: auto;
text-align: left;
background-color: #C7E19E;
}

A { color: #004E87; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-decoration: none; }
A:link { color: #004E87; }
A:visited { color: #004E87; }
A:active { color: #004E87; }
A:hover { color: #004E87; }

h1 {font-family: "verdana"; font-size:medium;}
h2 {font-family:"geneva"; font-size: 12px;}

#banner
{
width: 675px;
height: 95px;
border: 0px;
background-color: #C7E19E;
}


#blog
{
margin-top: 20px;
margin-right: 15px;
margin-bottom: 50px;
background-color:#fff;
float: right;
width: 340px;
padding : 10px 20px 10px 20px;

}

#straightup
{
background-color:#ECECEC;
margin-top: 5 px;
margin-right: 5 px;
margin-bottom: 5 px;
margin-left: 5 px;
}

#links
{
width: 227px;
height: auto;
background-color: #C7E19E;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
margin: 10px 5px 5px 5px;
float: left;
}

#sidebarbottom
{

border: 1px;
border-style:solid;
border-color: #004E87;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
}

.sidetitle
{
font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
}

.side
{
font-family: verdana, arial sans-serif;
font-size: 9px;
text-align: left;
}

#bottom
{
width: 675px;
height: 90px;
background___: url(http://www.drunkenbee.com/mt-static/images/____97.gif);
background-repeat: repeat;
}

.logo
{
padding-top: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
}

.archivetitle
{
font-family: "geneva", "verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: #666666;
line-height:16px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #005796;
padding-bottom: 8px;
letter-spacing: 1px;
}

.title
{
font-family: geneva, verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight:bold;
color: #004E87;
line-height:16px;
}

.date {
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
color: #666666;
}

.posted {
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
color: #666666;
}

.license{
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 10 px;
color: #044476
}

.comments-body
{
font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color:#666;
font-size:10px;
font-weight:normal;
background:#FFF;
line-height:140%;
padding-bottom:10px;
padding-top:10px;
border-bottom:1px dotted #999;
}

.comments-post {
font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color:#666;
font-size:10 px;
font-weight:normal;
background:#FFF;
}

.comments-head {
font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;
font-size:11 px;
color: #666;
border-bottom:1px solid #999;
margin-top:20px;
font-weight:bold;
background:#FFF;
}

#banner-commentspop {
font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color:#FFF;
font-size:large;
font-weight:bold;
border-left:1px solid #FFF;
border-right:1px solid #FFF;
border-top:1px solid #FFF;
background:#003366;
padding-left:15px;
padding-right:15px;
padding-top:5px;
padding-bottom:5px;
}

3 Both are good suggestions. I think I'd go higher than 340 pixels for the blog column.

4 Sweet talk Pixy into setting me up to access your tempalates and rebuild, and I'll make your site look like your old site... I can probably fo that on Sunday.

5 Sweetie, I've asked my fabulous web designer if they are interested in helping you out and designing your blog. Is that of interest?

6 Dear MadFish (or is it Mr. Willie?), Jim, Andrew -
Thank you so much for you suggestions. Madfish - if I had seen your offer, wow, let me just say that there is about 100 hours of my life I will never get back.

I downloaded a CSS editor from Tucows and am beating some knowledge into my head. It's slow going. I got a thick head.

Thank you thank you thank you for the code and help.

And?

Thank you!