I am trying to get a little creative in the layout of my blog and have taken on quite a challenge as my first theme development project.
I want to create a semi-news portal and want to have a featured category which displays the newest post which is in featured. This should be on the left and then I want the "titles only" on the right linking to their respective posts.
I want to fit this all in about a 500px wide wrapper.
300 - 350px wide on the featured, printed (most recent) article, and then the next 5-7 articles as links only, no additional content, on the right side of the post.
I have been looking at the WP loop but am slightly lost with it (and it is late) :)
Any help is appreciated.