Hi JoAn,

WSG member Andrew Krespanis put together an excellent presentation on a
3-column content source ordered layout at
http://www.leftjustified.net/site-in-an-hour/ with the actual site at
http://www.leftjustified.net/site-in-an-hour/site/.
 
I realise that you're after a two column layout and that is the beauty of
Andrew's design, it couldn't be easier to convert it two a 2 column layout. 
 
Here's a quick and dirty guide:
 
 - Remove the column #right in the HTML source code (was the right column)
 - In the default.css style sheet, change the percentage of #sub to 99% to
fill the container width (#outer)
 - In the default.css style sheet, Change the width of #center to fill the
width of #sub (the container of the two columns)
 
Presto, a rock solid two column layout.
 
I imagine you'll want to do some tweaking to the above and both the CSS and
HTML is well documented in terms of how the design works.
 
"Note from Andrew: Get rid of the ie7 script that is included as it has been
known to cause IE to crash. It's only there for max. and min width support,
which you won't be needing if you're making a fixed width design."
 
Best of luck,
Ryan Blunden

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Sent: Sunday, 18 September 2005 10:41 AM
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Subject: [WSG] two column


Hi! I'm new to the list and to CSS. I really need a two column
source-ordered CSS layout so that the left column can be used for navigation
and the 2nd column would be for content. I suppose I'd need about 160px for
the left nav and the balance for the content. But I'd like the content
source to show first in the source code. Plus I'll need the header and the
footer. I've searched and searched but can only find the 3 column
source-ordered layout and can't figure out how to redo it to two column.
 
Would you help me out please? Thanks in advance! JoAn

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