Who knows how to make a right column??

[dphibb +]

Hello, I am using the 68 green template and just want a right column to put display ads in. I think I need a CSS code, and have played around a little, but I can't get anything to work. Anyone know what I can do?

[Eric Barnes]

Hi,

It should be pretty easy. What you can do is open the layout template file and locate this section:

<td valign="top" class="padding">
                <!-- // Content // -->
                {* This includes the content portion *}
                {include file=$body}
                <!-- // End Content // -->
            </td>
        </tr>
  </table>

Then replace that with:

<td valign="top" class="padding">
                <!-- // Content // -->
                {* This includes the content portion *}
                {include file=$body}
                <!-- // End Content // -->
            </td>
            <!-- // RIGHT SIDE // -->
            <td> Right side text or whatever can go here.
            </td>
            <!-- // END RIGHT SIDE // -->
        </tr>
  </table>

[dphibb +]

Oh my word...that was easy!! I had such a complicated thing going and it wasn't going where I wanted it anyway! Thanks so much!!

[Eric Barnes]

Glad to help!

[goose +]

I just tried it out and noticed afterwards that on the searchresults header tab (Title, Price, etc) the font is now the same color as the rest of the text on the site. They used to be different. I looked back and noticed the original code had the "<div id...." (see below) which isn't in your modified code for the right column. Should this me included in the new modified code?

	
<td valign="top" class="padding">
<div id="content">
                <!-- // Content // -->
                {* This includes the content portion *}
                {include file=$body}
                <!-- // End Content // -->
</div>
            </td>
        </tr>
  </table>

[Eric Barnes]

Yes that could be the case. You would probably need to check the style sheet and see what the #content does. I believe it is different for each template.

[dphibb +]

Yeah, I didn't have any problems with that. The only issue I ran into was that I had to do a "width="150" because on the category pages the right column took up half the page and squished the categories.

[goose +]

Any tips on how to make a left hand column on a regular .php page? When I try adding a left column it's either above or below the main page content.