need help with placing content

kcrys
(@kcrys)

19 years, 10 months ago

I haven’t seen anything posted about this, or even similar to this or so I’m hoping…if there is already a post about this please direct to it for I can’t find it.
K, here’s my problem. I am wanting to use wp (because I’m familiar and happy with it) for an online ezine that I am planning to open to the world within the next month. I have no idea how to do this with wp, and my css and php knowledge if VERY limited. I have put a webpage up in html that shows what I want to do, you can find it here.
http://members.shaw.ca/lunara/index2.html
What I’m looking for is a way to place the categories along the top of the site under the logo…have recent posts (articles) with only the titles along with the category it can be found in with the date beside that showing in the left column. In the middle column I want to put the posts (articles) that myself and others will contribute to the ezine. In the right column I want to have the top showing word of the month/day/week (and be able to change this when need be), and below this place to have ads for advertisers, that will change time to time. So basically everything except the logo will be changing constantly and on a regular basis.
There must be a way to do this, but I have no idea how to go about it with the limited knowledge I have. If anyone is willing to write the code up for me I will give them free ad space for life (very first space, and family orientated content only), and give them credit for the code (of course).
All help much appreciated!

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Root
(@root)

19 years, 10 months ago

Might I suggest to get the ball rolling that you research the subject of 3 column layouts and find one which suits you. Then work out how it runs. Then examine the WP index.php code. Then put what you want; where you want it.

Thread Starter kcrys
(@kcrys)

19 years, 10 months ago

Sushubh that’s exactly what I’m wanting! Would I be able to use it the code for it and tweak it a bit? …though the links to the recent articles I’m hoping to have the article’s category and date underneath it…is there a way to do this anyone? I’ve seen it done with other scripts, haven’t seen anything done in wp yet.
Root, that would be an idea. But as I mentioned before my problem is I don’t know php to fool around with it to make it work. And I really don’t have the time between working at home and taking care of a 6 month old to learn php. CSS I have a basic understand, enough that I can play around with it and see what happens, but php is like reading German, a language I don’t speak at all. And I haven’t come across any sites using wp with 3 columns until Sushubh showed his, and believe me I have been looking.

Thread Starter kcrys
(@kcrys)

19 years, 10 months ago

oh, and the category’s are listed at the top instead of at the side….

Root
(@root)

19 years, 10 months ago

@ Sushubh: *ahem* have you mentioned the tables?

Sushubh
(@sushubh)

19 years, 10 months ago

yeah its a table based layout :p
so i am excusing myself! 🙂
kcrys what u want is possible using css and i have seen some good examples! but i am not very good at css 🙁

Thread Starter kcrys
(@kcrys)

19 years, 10 months ago

where are the examples? I’ve searched through here and other places but haven’t come across any that have anything similar to what I’m looking for…

Sushubh
(@sushubh)

19 years, 10 months ago

3 column layouts:
http://nemesis1.f2o.org/templates
when i said i have seen examples, i did not necessarily meant wp blogs. 🙂 i meant 3 column css based layouts!

Thread Starter kcrys
(@kcrys)

19 years, 10 months ago

oh well I’ve seen that *laugh* i can do that in html no probs. but I want the convience that wp offers over html for inputing entries/articles along with letting others register and doing the same thing.

Sushubh
(@sushubh)

19 years, 10 months ago

open index.php and ur html template in ur html editor side by side and just copy paste tags and tests the demo page side by side. it wont take more than few hours mate! believe me i dont know any php myself. u can ask anyone here 🙂

Thread Starter kcrys
(@kcrys)

19 years, 10 months ago

that’s my problem… hense why I was asking if anyone would be able to code it for me.. I don’t have the time to spend trying to figure it out.

Root
(@root)

19 years, 10 months ago

The issue here as you point out is that there are very few WP 3 col blogs. There may be a good reason for that. Putting that aside implementing them can be tricky. I do not mean to discourage you in any way. They require in particular the ability to adapt both the css and the index in tandem together. That may take some time to get the hang of for sure. They also require a fairly in depth understanding of css positioning, and there are some hard design choices to be made around width and legacy browser issues. None of which is for the faint hearted.

Thread Starter kcrys
(@kcrys)

19 years, 10 months ago

Root, that is why I am asking if there is someone here that could help me… in exchange for credit and free ad space on the site.

Root
(@root)

19 years, 10 months ago

There really isn’t any need to know any php to be able to do what you want except to copy and paste the calls to where you want them.

justinbaeder
(@justinbaeder)

19 years, 10 months ago

I have a 3-col layout at urbanmonastery.com and my other site (click my name). The css file is wp-layout.css in both cases. If you want the PHP source, let me know via the email on my site.

Root
(@root)

19 years, 10 months ago

@justinbaedar I am just curious about the 30px of padding in your fixed width floated menus?