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Very nice. A clear and pleasing colour scheme backed by an interesting two-tier layout. Good job:)

Edit: realised the code posted was incorrect.

“Does anyone know of a way to get the result of the_content into a variable? Or another way to do this?”
Try the following:
$your_variable = get_the_content();

Khaled,

Try the following:
<div id="primaryContent">

<?php
$my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=gallery&showposts=1');
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$gallery_post = $post; // save the feature post for later...
endwhile;
?>

<?php
if (have_posts()) :
while (have_posts()) :
the_post();
if( $post->ID == $gallery_post->ID ) continue;
update_post_caches($posts);
?>

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>

<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
</div> <!-- entry -->

<p class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> <strong>|</strong> <?php edit_post_link('Edit','','<strong>|</strong>'); ?>
<?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?>

</div><!-- post -->

<?php comments_template(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

</div><!-- primaryContent -->

<?php endif; ?>
<hr />

<div id="gallery">

<?php
query_posts('category_name=gallery&showpost=1');
if (have_posts()) :
while (have_posts()) :
the_post();
?>

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></small>

<div class="entry">
<?php the_content(''); ?>
</div> <!-- entry -->

</div><!-- post -->
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div><!-- gallery -->

BTW, is this for BK4?

Not as far as I can tell as I’m relying on the same mechanism. Just so we’re on the same page, I’ll describe what I’m doing.

In the root index.php, before require('./wp-blog-header.php');, I’m using cat =-x; to exclude category x

In that case, it should be posted to the “your wordpress” forum.

Don’t start up duplicate threads! It’s extremely bad form to post 3 identical threads especially within 20 minutes of each other.

The codex has information on pages. You need to use wp_list_pages to list the pages.