Moving the sidebar proved to be relatively easy. I simply went into the “layout.css” file for the Journalized theme and looked at the settings for the “cola” division, which is Column A, the left hand column for that theme, then copied those settings to the “sidebar” division in “style.css” in my new theme. Worked quite nicely. Still need to adjust and rearrange the headings in the sidebar to be what I want, and, of course, switching to the new theme means that alot of the strange things I did to get the headers and contents of my static pages to show up through WordPress are now not working, which is actually part of the reason for creating the new theme, to come up with better ways of handling those pages and making them more robust.

However, I do see that there is still an area left over on the right hand side of the screen where the side bar used to be that isn’t being used now. Probably a setting somewhere in “style.css” that still needs tweaking.

After a little fighting with the code, figured out that the settings in “header.php” that were set up to use images for background colors needed to be commented out for the color settings in “style.css” to take effect.

Now, need to tweak the settings for the information in the main columns so it won’t blend into the sidebar at lower resolutions. Looks like that should be able to be handled in the “narrowcolumn” and “widecolumn” divisions in “style.css”

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