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I have to say I agree with Otto42 on the semantics. But WP has so many gratuitous divs it scarcely makes a difference. Still it is horses for courses. My method(well hardly mine) is pretty stable and robust and avoids a lot of the other bugs that come with floats. Principally in Ottos method you end up with a margined element #content contigious to a float. I always avoid that situation.

For this type of question we must have a link to the Blog In Question. And then we can read the code therein. We are coders. Not graphic designers. Photoshop/Screen Shots are no good.

Well I dont think you would get away with hot linking off com for 2 minutes:) My script parses out a list of all the images using grep/awk/sed. Then using wget it goes and gets those images all on its own. No human intervention is needed. Its really neat. But getting them back in the right directories is what I am working on right now. But I repeat all help will be gratefully appreciated.

With the greatest of respect to Otto42 I would approach it differently. Putting the content first is great for accessibility and search engines. But floated elements need to come first. The solution was proposed by Jeffrey Zeldman about three years ago, it was promulgated at alistapart, and further amplified at thenoodleincident.
The trick is to float the content AND the menu in opposite directions.
NOW:
For 3 colums extra steps are needed. (1). It is necessary to wrap the content and ONE sidebar in another container div #main. (2). There must be two div class=clear. One in main. One after the second sidebar. (3)On no account add lateral, margins, padding or borders to #content or the #sidebar(s).

Floats can’t be centered.

Is there an easy way to transfer? No. There is not.

@joni: I keep sending you email. Would you like to contact me? atthe404 at gmail dot com. 🙂