sidebar to left instead of the right

mugs · Post by **mugs** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:36 am

how can i put the side bar to the left instead of the right, please help

KarlKoch · Post by **KarlKoch** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:48 am

mugs wrote:how can i put the side bar to the left instead of the right, please help

What theme do you use?

mugs · Post by **mugs** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:52 am

for the moment, barsinister3

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:55 am

Hi!

Hm, that theme only supports a right sidebar. You would need to edit the index.tpl HTML sidebar code or the CSS code to make that fit...

Best regards,
Garvin

mugs · Post by **mugs** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:58 am

any idea how i could get about doing this, appreciate all the help

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:00 am

Hi!

Since barsinister3 is a very complex theme, this cannot be done easily, you'll need some HTML and CSS skills. How familiar are you with that?

I can't do that for you currently, it would take me too much time -- maybe someone other can help you more specifically here!

Best regards,
Garvin

mugs · Post by **mugs** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:03 am

i can manage with my html and the css, thanks anyway

mugs · Post by **mugs** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:21 am

how about on the blix theme is it easier on that to change

Post by **yellowled** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:12 pm

garvinhicking wrote:Since barsinister3 is a very complex theme, this cannot be done easily, you'll need some HTML and CSS skills. How familiar are you with that?

Another 'problem' is that barSinister3 is 'content first', meaning that the actual content of the blog is generated first in the output code. One would definitely want to keep this.

It is, however, possible to do a 'content first' template with the sidebar to the left, but it's a little bit tricky and prone to errors in various browsers.

Just my two cents ...

mugs · Post by **mugs** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:17 pm

i actually tried what you suggested and there were too many errors and i just gave up and switched to another theme

Post by **yellowled** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:21 pm

Hm. You never know unless you tried ... well, I tried a little bit this afternoon, and although I expected something different, it did actually work. Well, it did in Firefox/Linux, which doesn't mean too much, but you could try this:

#content:
- change float: left; to float: right;
- change margin-right: 11px to margin-left: 11px;

#serendipitySideBar:
- change float: right; to float: left;

#barsinister:
- change text-align: left; to text-align: right;
- mirror siteNewHeader_cropped.png

I haven't tried the last step, but the other two look very promising. However, I have no idea how this looks under Windows or in IE or Opera, so I won't promise anything ...

sidebar to left instead of the right

sidebar to left instead of the right

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