[support] setting up each content area as two columns

[Marc Morris]

Thanks for your feedback Shai.

I'm using the zen theme.


> Drupal themes typically have sidebars. Out-of-the-box Drupal  
> installations can easily populate the sidebar or sidebars with  
> information put in custom blocks or blocks generated by modules.  
> The main content column is typically populated by data coming from  
> nodes (stories, pages...).


Is there a way in which you can have the sidebars running underneath  
the header, navigation and "content_top" regions? I couldn't find a  
way in which to do this.


> It seems like you aren't asking about anything more complex than  
> what comes out-of-the-box in Drupal.


I'm now trying to assign two new "regions" - content_bottom_left and  
content_bottom_right


> If and when you do need more complex page layouts, one popular  
> module is called Panels (http://drupal.org/project/panels). Just be  
> warned though, Panels is powerful and flexible but also pretty  
> complex to use. It would be better getting experience building  
> simpler Drupal installs first before beginning to fuss with panels.


I looked at Panels but it doesn't have a Drupal 6 version - otherwise  
it sounds like it would have ben ideal.

I've just changed my  .info and page.tpl.php and I can now assign  
blocks to these two new regions. However I need to change the style  
sheet somewhere in order to have them display side-by-side rather  
than one on top of the other.

Any ideas where and how and where I do this?

Thanks,

Marc