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Very nice ?? we can never have enough themes, keep them coming!

Mmmkay. The columns not being lined up is quite often (i find) a result of one column being too wide to fit in the overall container.

Let’s take a simple 2-column layout as an example. Say your main container (i.e. div) is 800px wide, and within that are your content container and your sidebar container. If the width of those two containers adds up to more than 800px, then sometimes the sidebar gets forced down below the content.

Also, to change the width of the TriSexuality theme, there’s a bit more to it than just changing the widths in the CSS. The theme has what are called “faux columns” made with a background image (see more here). What this means is, to change the width of the theme as it comes out of the box, you need to resize this image as well as the “width” values in the style.css file. Hope that helps ??

The best way is probably to use Denis-de-Bernardy’s Semiologic theme, which effectively turns WordPress into a CMS.

Hey it’s really nice. The header’s cool and scarily similar to something I was playing around with for a redesign.

Nice use of color, and very easy to read.

Yes, a similar idea is the “News Time” theme – there’s an example here or the theme’s official page is here.

Hmm, well I don’t know if this helps, but I mada a theme called “Zine“, the main feature of which is a central “featured articles” column, which displays only articles you place in a “featured” category, while the rest of the blog flows around it. Have a look, if you’re interested.

Also helpful if you’re looking to do this sort of thing with WP is the codex query_posts page, which give loads of info on how to manpulate the Loop in weird and wonderful ways ??

You can use the query_posts function to call posts by author. By putting two ‘loops’ in your theme, each calling posts from a different author, you should be able to acheive what you want. Have a look at the codex or ifelse’s good posts on this topic.

Yeah, I really like this. Even better than the old design ??

Hmm, I don’t know much about MySQL and the database, so I’m not sure if I can help. Try taking out the “post navigation” div from the sidebar, just to see if it is that causing the problem. I haven’t seen this error when tinkering with the theme before, so I wonder if it’s an error with the database, rather than the theme.

Can anyone else help here?

Oops, careless use of plurals in the link. Fixed now.

hipocratico, I did consider using the_excerpt as the default, but I thought some people might want to use “more” tags instead.

This is because IE doesn’t support the CSS value max-width (it limits the size of your images to only the width of the post area). However, there is a useful fix here which I use a lot.

Unfortunately if you want to get the main div to strech down, you have to put all the divs inside it. Once you do this everything will be in the wrong place, but you can tinker with margins, padding etc.

You’re using a liguid layout for the main div, so I would suggest floating the google ads div right, and giving the centre column a margin-right of enough so it doesn’t “wrap” around the google ads (if you see what I mean) and forms its own column.

Yes, hipocratico, unfortunately you will get this error until there are 3 “featured” posts – I recommend you make 3 “dummy” empty posts to the category before beginning. This is one bug to be fixed in the next release.

As to Dgold’s suggestion of links at the top, at the top of my list for the next release is tabbed links in the header, a bit like *rdc theme or K2.

I agree the default colours are a bit bland (maybe even girly if you want to assign wavelengths of light genders) but my intention was always for people to modify away. Nmallory, your ideas sound very interesting, I’d like to see that when it’s finished. And any questions, feel free to contact me here or at my blog.

Well, thank you very much. Please give me a bell if you do.

Yes, I have worked on something similar recently. Have a look at this. Is it what you’re after? If it is, it would be easy to give each column a seperate category to display. Feel free to do what you like with the source code, you could use it as your base.

If you want to build it from scratch, this tutorial should help.