splitting single post loop into two columns (ex. included)

actually quite straight forward:
the very basic structure:

<div class="post">

 <div class="post_title">
 title, date, etc.
 </div>

 <div class="post_image">
 img
 </div>

 <div class="post_meta">
 tags, author, meta.
 </div>

 <div class="post_content">
 content
 </div>

</div> <!-- end .post -->

rough css basics:

.post {width:100%; float:left; margin;padding;... }
.post_title {width: 30%; float:left; ... }
.post_image {width: 60%; float:right; ... }
.post_meta {width: 30%; float:left; ... }
.post_content {width: 30%; float:right; ... }

(what you were referring to,

I know it should be very difficult

is a kind of newspaper layout where the content flows into two columns – quite difficult, and debatable useful on the web.)

ps: just imagine you would try to explain to someone with word and a scetchbook, how this post shold be displayed:

you would intuitively draw boxes atound these different areas and say something like: ‘this area should be on the left, and the image on the right; and below, there is this other block on the left for the meta data, and then on the right in a box there is the content, which could stretch all the way down.
– html divs are boxes, and you can have a box in a box with other boxes, and more boxes some of these boxes … ‘russian doll principle’.

if you are planning to do more web/wordpress stuff – get youself the firefox add-on ‘web developer’ – a great tool that gives you an extra toolbar for the firefox browser, where you can make a lot of these html structures visible for any webpage that you view.

Hey, thanks alchymyth. I’ll effort it and let you know what results I get. ??

Edit: I’ve got some formatting to do, but that IS the structure I need. I was originally thinking of some really complicated coding, so thanks a lot for pointing out a simpler way to do it!

Edit Two: I’ve got web developer AND firebug! I usually use Chrome though, and the thought of getting in firefox didn’t occur to me. Brain damage. I’ll keep working on it though.