How-to: Two post columns Twenty Eleven

@digital Raindrops I have been trying to design a blog with two content columns side by side (sort of like this http://3191milesapart.com/) so I was very excited to see your child theme for twentyeleven. However, I have been unable to get two columns to display. all the content is currently just displaying in a single column.

I am very new to wordpress and don’t have a lot of technical knowledge. But I created a child theme and uploaded the files from your site and activated the child theme. i’m just not sure where I went wrong. Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

the blog: http://www.thealbrecht.com

Thanks

Firstly, thanks for this great resource. I have a question regarding pulling in custom post types that I’ve created into a page template. And actually I’ve tried both content-about.php and about-page.php. Here’s what I’ve done:

In your index.php I have changed this piece:
<?php get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘about’ ); ?>

and in content-about.php in the post types part I have changed this piece:
<?php if ( ‘post’ == get_post_type(‘myposttype’) ) : ?>
<div class=”entry-meta”>
<?php twentyeleven_posted_on(); ?>
</div><!– .entry-meta –>
<?php endif; ?>

‘myposttype’ is registered in the functions.php file correctly. I’ve had it working on 1 column but now I need the 2-col.

My post type is not displaying at all but regular post types are displaying nicely in the 2-col format.

I would really appreciate your help. Thanks.

This is a custom loop right?

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'books',
'posts_per_page' => 4
);
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );

while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
 the_title('<h2 class="books">','</h2>');
echo '<div class="one">';

the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail', array('class' => 'alignleft'));
echo the_excerpt();

echo '</div>';
endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>