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Hi. I'm fairly new to blogging go bare with me. I just need help using the Andreas08 template having the sidebar to the right instead of to the left. I have tried to change it but I can never get it quite right. Directions on how to do this please?

Hi!

Sadly the andreas08 template has a fixed sidebar within the template, so the usual s9y plugin placements do not take effect.

You'd have to edit the templates style.css to move the sidebar. I believe someone has asked for this in the past, have you searched the forum for "andreas08"?

HTH,
Garvin

Is this Carl Galloway Andreas08 theme? It's S9Y 1.1 aware, which gives you extra options in the Serendipity Administration Suite.
After the template (Manage Styles) has been set as your active template, you are prompted (top of the screen) with extra Theme/Style options. Here you can check a radio-button to choose left or right for the side-bar (as wel as 5 different color-sets).

garvinhicking wrote:Hi!

Sadly the andreas08 template has a fixed sidebar within the template, so the usual s9y plugin placements do not take effect.

You'd have to edit the templates style.css to move the sidebar. I believe someone has asked for this in the past, have you searched the forum for "andreas08"?

HTH,
Garvin

I have done this search but have not been able to get definitive results. I was hoping to get them here

Neut wrote:Is this Carl Galloway Andreas08 theme? It's S9Y 1.1 aware, which gives you extra options in the Serendipity Administration Suite.
After the template (Manage Styles) has been set as your active template, you are prompted (top of the screen) with extra Theme/Style options. Here you can check a radio-button to choose left or right for the side-bar (as wel as 5 different color-sets).

Wow..this sounds great but I don't see this in the Administration Suite BTW, it is the Carl Galloway Andreas 08 theme.

What version of S9Y do you use?
Also, if you do not see the options, you can set it manually by changing the template-code with an editor (old fashioned way).

Hi eddyjunior,

Sorry I haven't been around. My own site hosting has been causing me some big headaches so...

The andreas08 template was updated a couple of months ago to work with Serendipity 1.1, and trhis is where the column switching comes in. The design for that template is two column, so the choice of sidebar is either to the left or right of the content. If you're running v1.1 then as Neut says, you just need to enter the 'manage styles' section of your admin area, and the option to use left or right side becomes available.

On the other hand, if you are running v1.0 or even v0.91, then by default the sidebar is positioned to the right of the content. You can change this by opening index.tpl in your favourite text editor and finding this line than change the first instance of contentleft (after {if $head_version < 1.1}) to contentright

Hope that helps,

Carl

carl_galloway wrote:Hi eddyjunior,

Sorry I haven't been around. My own site hosting has been causing me some big headaches so...

The andreas08 template was updated a couple of months ago to work with Serendipity 1.1, and trhis is where the column switching comes in. The design for that template is two column, so the choice of sidebar is either to the left or right of the content. If you're running v1.1 then as Neut says, you just need to enter the 'manage styles' section of your admin area, and the option to use left or right side becomes available.

On the other hand, if you are running v1.0 or even v0.91, then by default the sidebar is positioned to the right of the content. You can change this by opening index.tpl in your favourite text editor and finding this line

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<div id="mainpane" class="{if $head_version < 1.1}contentleft{/if}{if $template_option.contentposition == 'true'}contentleft{elseif $template_option.contentposition == 'false'}contentright{/if}">

than change the first instance of contentleft (after {if $head_version < 1.1}) to contentright

Hope that helps,

Carl

Thank you very much Carl, you've been a great help. I upgraded to 1.1 and tried to modify it in the 'manage stylesl' section but for some reason my preferences do not save, they just keep going back to the default left side. Thanks again for helping me, I'm going to continue working on it.

Neut wrote:What version of S9Y do you use?
Also, if you do not see the options, you can set it manually by changing the template-code with an editor (old fashioned way).

I was using 1.0, Thanks for your help Neut.

Hey, it's that's what the forum-community is for!

But, you should rather thank Carl for porting Andreas08 to S9Y. I use it as well for my website (it's the nuclear style sheet, somewhat modified).

Neut wrote:Is this Carl Galloway Andreas08 theme? It's S9Y 1.1 aware, which gives you extra options in the Serendipity Administration Suite.
After the template (Manage Styles) has been set as your active template, you are prompted (top of the screen) with extra Theme/Style options. Here you can check a radio-button to choose left or right for the side-bar (as wel as 5 different color-sets).

New question...

You're right, you do get prompted to make any changes you might want to make in sy9 1.1. How come those changes do not get saved? They just keep going back to the default preferences (left sidebar). Same thing happens with Andreas09. Any suggestions?

Hi eddyjunior,

I'm afraid the answer I give you about not being able to save is only based on my personal expreiences and might actually be incorrect, so wiser minds might need to put their comments in as well.

If you are unable to save changes to your database it suggests to me that maybe the users you login with doesn't have administrator rights. There are two places where this might have been changed. The first is in the personal settings link, make sure you are configured as an administrator instead of editor. The second place is under manage groups, and you may have inadvertantly unchecked one of the boxes around the templates or plugins part of the page. Have a play with these and see if you can get it fixed.

Carl

carl_galloway wrote:Hi eddyjunior,

I'm afraid the answer I give you about not being able to save is only based on my personal expreiences and might actually be incorrect, so wiser minds might need to put their comments in as well.

If you are unable to save changes to your database it suggests to me that maybe the users you login with doesn't have administrator rights. There are two places where this might have been changed. The first is in the personal settings link, make sure you are configured as an administrator instead of editor. The second place is under manage groups, and you may have inadvertantly unchecked one of the boxes around the templates or plugins part of the page. Have a play with these and see if you can get it fixed.

Carl

Thanks for your reply Carl. There was another problem and I was able to take care of it. Thanks again.