Rin: 3-Column Hack

Remove the bullet from “Digg News”.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with the bullet. Zero. Nil.

Your css has some fundamental issues (elements cannot be floated and also have a relative position, ul elements are not positioned relatively, and I think there is some repetition).

I would study some successful 3 column templates and in particular the div structure.

Thanks for the help podz. But, what do you mean by the div structure? Sorry, I’m new to CSS.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/CSS#CSS_Resources

CSS is a HUGE topic ….. and 3 columns alone is a difficult trail in many respects.
I don’t want to discourage you from trying what you are, but have you thought of installing another 3-col theme and ‘living’ with it for a while and getting to see how it works ?

Yes, I have indeed thought of installing a three-column layout. But, once again curiousity and learning get the best of me. I really want to learn what I’m doing wrong and how to fix it. I work best that way. Thanks for your help!

In addition to which, if you are new to CSS, creating a working 3 column theme is going to be a mountain for yourself to undertake. Follow podz’s advice and grab an existing three column theme and modify that to your taste. While you have that running, read up on CSS, how it works, the structure and so on – have a second WP site and use that to work on and experiment with.

Chanigng the colours etc is the easy part, building the structure for someone new to CSS (even me) is frankly mind boggling. Good luck

I’m sure you’re right but, I think I’m so close. It would kill me to have to abandon it now. Once again, if you look at my site, i’m sure you can see what’s wrong [https://www.loganleger.com]. I think that I just messed up a margin. Please let me know and thanks for all your help guys.

Ok, if you’re confident you have it right, save that entire theme folder, install a second WP and upload it there and play with it that way. You could spend days, hours, weeks or however long trying to get into a three column theme, but then it doesn’t mean it will look the same on all pages. When you start adding images in posts, or add a comment, you can’t guarantee it will be as the front page.

That’s the only advice I can give with regards to having something to play with, but also having a working site that you can post on whiel working on the three column design.

OK. I guess I should try that. What three-col layouts do you recommend?

Use shadow’s excellent preview to view the theme: https://themes.os42.com/theme-viewer.php

And use the codex to see which are three columns – the codex doesn’t have as an extensive list as shadow’s site, but it’s a good reference guide:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Themes/Theme_List

Hope that helps

OK. I looked through those and I didn’t find one as beautiful as Rin. I’m going to keep on trying. Thanks again for all your help!

If Khaled, Root or Joshua have time, you might be able to bother them and ask them how to convert it to three columns. Though don’t quote me on that.

Alright. I’ll see if Root or Josh can spare a few minutes. Khaled, however, is tied up until May 1 (or around that time).

I think that there is now a line being drawn informally between theme support and theme development. This definitely falls into the dev category. As such it fairly falls outside of the scope of this forum. If you read the thread on khaled’s support forum you will see the very considerable difficulties in live development, on the fly with (possibly) a less experienced end user. In the same time the author could probably release another theme. Currently Manji / Rin are available in 1/2 col formats. That is it. Furthermore 3 column themes generally require very substantial surgery of both the index and the CSS. I respect the efforts of TOP but I would not have gone that way myself (menus before content). Neuros 1.5 Trident port is good.:) Available in all the usual locales. We can’t really do much more. Lets hope the mods dont delete my post as usual.

Alright Root, thanks for your help. I’ll probably try to use another theme soon. Anymore help, though would be deeply appreciated.