• Ok, so I figured out how to put on a layout made by alex king. My site is here: http://dillon.wallgardens.com. I need to know how to make it so the side bar stays fit with the layout (it over flows)
    here is my layout stuff:

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    <?php
    /* Don’t remove this line. */
    require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
    ?>
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”&gt;
    <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”&gt;
    <head profile=”http://gmpg.org/xfn/1″&gt;
    <title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>
    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=<?php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?>” />
    <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress <?php bloginfo(‘version’); ?>” /> <!– leave this for stats –>
    <style type=”text/css” media=”screen”>
    @import url( <?php echo get_settings(‘siteurl’); ?>/zen.css );
    </style>
    <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”print” href=”<?php echo get_settings(‘siteurl’); ?>/print.css” />
    <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” />
    <link rel=”alternate” type=”text/xml” title=”RSS .92″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss_url’); ?>” />
    <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/atom+xml” title=”Atom 0.3″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘atom_url’); ?>” />
    <link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?>” />
    <?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly&format=link’); ?>
    <?php //comments_popup_script(); // off by default ?>
    <?php wp_head(); ?>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id=”rap”>
    <h1 id=”header”>“><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></h1>
    <div id=”content”>
    <?php if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
    <?php the_date(”,'<h2>’,'</h2>’); ?>
    <div class=”post”>
    <h3 class=”storytitle” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
    <div class=”meta”><?php _e(“Filed under:”); ?> <?php the_category() ?> — <?php the_author() ?> @ <?php the_time() ?> <?php edit_post_link(); ?></div>
    <div class=”storycontent”>
    <?php the_content(); ?>
    </div>
    <div class=”feedback”>
    <?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
    <?php comments_popup_link(__(‘Comments (0)’), __(‘Comments (1)’), __(‘Comments (%)’)); ?>
    </div>
    <!–
    <?php trackback_rdf(); ?>
    –>
    <?php include(ABSPATH . ‘wp-comments.php’); ?>
    </div>
    <?php endforeach; else: ?>
    <?php _e(‘Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.’); ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
    </div>
    <div id=”menu”>

      <?php get_links_list(); ?>
      <li id=”categories”><?php _e(‘Categories:’); ?>
      <?php wp_list_cats(); ?>

    <li id=”search”>
    <label for=”s”><?php _e(‘Search:’); ?></label>
    <form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>”>
    <div>
    <input type=”text” name=”s” id=”s” size=”15″ />
    <input type=”submit” name=”submit” value=”<?php _e(‘Search’); ?>” />
    </div>
    </form>

    <li id=”archives”><?php _e(‘Archives:’); ?>

      <?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?>

    <li id=”calendar”>
    <?php get_calendar(); ?>

    <li id=”other”><?php _e(‘Other:’); ?>

    <li id=”meta”><?php _e(‘Meta:’); ?>

    </div>
    </div>
    <p class=”credit”><!–<?php echo $wpdb->num_queries; ?> queries. <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. –> <cite><?php echo sprintf(__(“Powered by WordPress“), __(“Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform”)); ?></cite>
    </body>
    </html>
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    /*
    “Zen” by Michee Rose (www.michee.vrtisworks.com, michee@vrtisworks.com)
    02/06/04
    based on the Default WordPress by Dave Shea || http://mezzoblue.com
    Modifications by Matthew Mullenweg || http://photomatt.net
    */
    /*overall*/
    a {
    color: #666;
    text-decoration:none;
    border-bottom: 1px dashed #999;
    }
    a img {
    border: none;
    }
    a:visited {
    color: #444;
    }
    a:hover {
    color: #000;
    text-decoration: none;
    }
    acronym, abbr {
    border-bottom: 1px dashed #333;
    }
    acronym, abbr, span.caps {
    font-size: 90%;
    letter-spacing: .07em;
    cursor: help;
    }
    blockquote {
    border-left: 3px solid #ccc;
    margin-left: 1.5em;
    padding-left: 5px;
    }
    body {
    background: #fff url(‘http://wallgardens.com/images/grass.jpg&#8217;) no-repeat left top;
    color: #000
    font-size: 100%;
    font-family: ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, Verdana, sans-serif;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0
    }
    cite {
    font-size: 90%;
    font-style: normal;
    }
    h2 {
    font: 80% “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;
    letter-spacing: 0.2em;
    border-bottom: 1px dotted #ccc;
    margin: 15px 0 2px 0;
    padding-bottom: 2px;
    }
    h3 {
    font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;
    border-bottom: dotted 1px #eee;
    margin-top: 0;
    }
    ol#comments li p {
    font-size: 100%;
    }
    p, li, .feedback {
    font: 90%/175% ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, Verdana, sans-serif;
    letter-spacing: -1px;
    }
    /*header*/
    #header {
    font-family: Palatino, Garamond, serif;
    text-align: left;
    letter-spacing: 0.2em;
    line-height: 80%;
    margin: 0;
    margin-left:350px;
    padding-top: 5px;
    height:100px;
    }
    #header a {
    color:#000;
    font-family: Palatino, Garamond, serif;
    font-size: 1.2em;
    text-decoration: none;
    border: none;
    padding:0;
    }
    #header a:hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
    }
    /*content*/
    #content {
    border-left: 2px solid #666;
    padding-left: 2px;
    margin: 50px 12em 0px 190px;
    floart:left;
    width: 600px;
    }
    .post {
    margin-right: 8em;
    }
    .feedback {
    color: #ccc;
    text-align: right;
    }
    .meta {
    font-size: .75em;
    border: none;
    }
    .meta, .meta a {
    color: #808080;
    font-weight: normal;
    letter-spacing: 0;
    }
    .meta ul {
    display: inline;
    list-style: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    }
    .meta li {
    display: inline;
    }
    .storytitle {
    margin: 0;
    }
    .storytitle a {
    border: none;
    }
    #commentform input, #commentform textarea {
    background: #fff;
    border: 1px solid #333;
    }
    #commentform textarea {
    width: 100%;
    }
    /*menu*/
    #menu {
    background: #fff;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #666;
    border-left: 1px dotted #ccc;
    padding: 10px 0 5px 15px;
    float:right;
    position: absolute;
    left: 680px;
    top: 50px;
    width: 200px;
    }
    #menu form {
    margin: 0 0 0 13px;
    }
    #menu input {
    background: #eee;
    letter-spacing: -0.05em;
    border: 1px solid #999;
    width: 80%;
    }
    #menu ul {
    color: #ccc;
    font-weight: bold;
    text-transform: lowercase;
    list-style-type: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding-left: 3px;
    }
    #menu ul li {
    font: italic normal 110% ‘Times New Roman’, Times, serif;
    letter-spacing: 0.1em;
    margin-top: 10px;
    padding-bottom: 2px; /*border-bottom: dotted 1px #ccc;*/
    }
    #menu ul ul {
    font-variant: normal;
    font-weight: normal;
    line-height: 100%;
    text-align: left;
    list-style-type: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    }
    #menu ul ul li {
    letter-spacing: 0;
    border: 0px none;
    margin-top: 0;
    padding-left: 12px; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:115%; font-size:70%; font-family:Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Verdana, sans-serif; padding-right:0; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0
    }
    #menu ul ul li a {
    color: #000;
    text-decoration: none;
    }
    #menu ul ul li a:hover {
    border-bottom: 1px solid #809080;
    }
    #cam {
    font-size: .5em;
    text-align: center;
    }
    #wp-calendar {
    font-size: 14px;
    border: 1px solid #ddd;
    margin: 0;
    width: 90%;
    empty-cells: show;
    }
    #wp-calendar #next a {
    text-align: right;
    padding-right: 10px;
    }
    #wp-calendar #prev a {
    text-align: left;
    padding-left: 10px;
    }
    #wp-calendar a {
    text-decoration: none;
    display: block;
    }
    #wp-calendar a:hover {
    background: #e0e6e0;
    color: #333;
    }
    #wp-calendar caption {
    color: #999;
    font-size: 16px;
    text-align: left;
    }
    #wp-calendar td {
    color: #ccc;
    font: normal 12px ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, Verdana, sans-serif;
    text-align: center;
    letter-spacing: normal;
    padding: 2px 0;
    }
    #wp-calendar td.pad:hover {
    background: #fff;
    }
    #wp-calendar td:hover, #wp-calendar #today {
    background: #eee;
    color: #bbb;
    }
    #wp-calendar th {
    font-style: normal;
    text-transform: capitalize;
    }
    /*footer/credit*/
    .credit {
    background: #666666;
    color: #fff;
    font-size: .9em;
    text-align: center;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 3px;
    border-top: double 3px #999;
    clear:both;
    }
    .credit

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  • Er thanks for the code. We can read your CSS from here anyway. 🙂 The answer to your question is that you can’t. At least not without editing the index file. No big deal but some folks do not want to do it.

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Ok, how?
    –Dillon

    Well that depends on how you want it to look exactly. Could you find a WP blog you like and post the url here.? Then we can help maybe.

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    The menu are flows over the footer. I want the menu to stop at the footer.

    Let me say at the outset that what you would like is perfectly common. No problems there. Let me also say that this is more difficult than it sounds. It is easy to fix as long as you embrace the issue wholeheartedly and make the necessary changes. The WP default is a full width flexible layout. It has an absolutely positioned menu and as you have observed a half footer. In order for that footer to settle where we want it we need to add a clearer div. That however will not work with an absolutely positioned menu. You therefore need to change to the CSS 1 compliant float positioning scheme for your menu. If you want source ordered content that needs to be floated too. It is necessary to add a div #masthead (not header it is already in use) and the div clearer. All of that requires substantial surgery and a fair grasp of CSS. What sadly is not a good idea in every respect is to fit a style sheet which does not mesh with the index file. IMHO. If you would like to look at my Gemini template the link is on my blog. Good luck whatever you do.

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    in your #content, you have floart: left instead of float.
    maybe that could help? i really don’t know much, but yeah…

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