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I am working to revamp an online university news publication that was designed using Serendipity. I am not familiar with the interface, but from the efforts I have made to familiarize myself with the software I have run into one consistent trait: all the pages that use Serendipity to post news entries in a blog style have each post lined up in a single column with 1 or 2 sidebars included. Never do I see two posts from the same day in 2 columns side by side. Is this impossible to achieve with Serendipity?

The editor of the publication wants to make our website look more like a newspaper, with multiple entries side by side in columns. Can anyone help me figure out whether this is possible with Serendipity, and if so perhaps suggest how I might go about doing it?

Thanks for any help!

What is the url to the site? Need to see it before offering suggestions.

Hi!

It definitely is possible using Smartytemplating in the entries.tpl file. You will need to create floating Div containers that float left and right, using custom CSS and a logic to distinct a "left" and "right" entry (use the $msarty.foreach.* loop syntax to check if you have an 'even' or 'odd' entry).

Regards,
Garvin

The URL for the website is MUSavitar.com

I'm in the process of a total redesign, so pardon the major problems with the design like the lack of uniform alignment and the flexible content column.

What you say about floating posts left and right seems to make sense garvin. I am not really fluent enough in smart to fully understand how to assign every other post to a different class of div. I will look into it. Thanks!