WildBil2Me

I started using percentages instead of exact pixel counts awhile back and found that it made floating columns and boxes much easier.

As Yngwin mentions, properly wrapping the div blocks will also make things alot easier.

There’s a WYSIWYG editor for posts, but I’m not aware of one for templates yet.

You have the option of installing stuff locally to play around with PHP and MySQL databases to get some things done, but I haven’t done that in ages.

I know the frustration of early WP work. Luckily, with the advent of 1.5 and the Codex things have become much easier. In about two months time I’ve made huge leaps in learning how to get things done.

What I recommend is starting with CSS. Google some free CSS tutorials, and play around with the style sheet first. Once you know how you want to “block out” your website you can hit the codex for tons of great info or even just ask around this board.

It is definitely tough at first but, at least for me, learning the ins and outs of WP is as much fun as actually blogging with it.

This is actually pretty easy to do I think… at least I think.

I recently put together a new template that runs the loop four times. In your case you’d need it run six times which is definitely possible.

I’d read the codex sections on Multiple Loops. If you need more advice after that I’d be glad to help. A setup like this would be alot of fun to put together.

You must have caught me while I was fixing a broken template. I’ve updated and fixed the issue which was throwing off a number of my columns. Things are much more tidy now.

Still a bug or two, but should be head and shoulders over what was up most of Saturday.