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Ahh, thanks Root…I’m a WP newbie, and haven’t taken a look at those templates. Good to know!

I had similar problems with IE, and to fix it, you have to pay attention to the padding of the divs, and not just the widths of the divs in your css file. For instance, my total “container” (which holds both columns) has width: 769px;, my main column has width: 464px; padding: 24px; and the right column has width: 220px; padding: 18px;
Adding these up, including the left and right padding for each div, the total is 768px, which is 1px off due to a separator line in between the two columns. I hope that example makes sense…if it helps, feel free to take a look at my css file.

I think this article on Keeping Current might be useful for you, although I’m not sure if you meant your navigation links, or links from a list.

If you use floats instead of absolute positioning, and then add a div that clears both (<div style="clear: both;"></div>) that should get the columns to be even…I’d have to mess around with it to be sure, but in theory, I think that should do it.
The tricky part about your request is the middle column being fluid. A real easy way to get the columns to all have the same height, is to use Dan Cederholm’s idea of Faux Columns which I use on my site as well, but for a 2-column layout. I hope that gives you a starting point to look at…

Just glancing at it, I’d say you need to put your content in tags, and then it looks like there’s not a style defined for

(ordered lists) in your css.

Sorry…I’m a little slow (should probably read more carefully). I think the only way to acheive what you’re thinking of (which, if I understand correctly, would be a 3-column layout when there are comments to be shown, but a 2-column layout otherwise) would be to make the left column fluid, and floating the other two divs to the right and giving them fixed widths, thus when one div “disappears” the left one will fill in that area…although I’m not sure if that’s exactly the look you’d want to go for.

That looks to be exactly what I need…thanks for the link!

Another idea would be to start with a clean design, making a static page and then adding in the WP template tags as you go along to create the look you want.
Also, if I read it correctly, it sounds like you want slightly different page layouts for different areas of your site, but all created by WP. I too am planning on doing something like that, and found the advice under the Creating separate category and individual files section of Burningbird’s article WordPress Modifications to be helpful in setting up separate template files.
If you need some help with css layout, aside from WP issues, feel free to send me an email aaron [at] elasticdog.com

I am also interested in doing this, and have yet to figure out a good implementation. Would the best idea be to write a plugin, or do you think this will be something that is implemented in version 1.3?

Also, I just realized there’s a plugin for it that you can find on the wiki. Live Preview Plugin. Hope that helps…

Take a look at the Fullpage Preview section here: Burningbird – WordPress Modifications. It’s a bit complex, but doable.