Newbie - advice on porting existing 2-column layout?

[3stripe]

Hi folks! First post here so go easyon me 

I'm about to convert an existing site to be content managed, and plan to use eith CMSmadesimple, or Wordpress for this. I've never used CMSmadesimpe before but am pretty well versed in Wordpress, so not sure what the learning curve will be like.

Anyhow, one immediate question - how hard is it to set up 2 column layouts?

You can see an example page at http://tinyurl.com/nvzlf

Is it possible to set up templates with 2 columns and then edit both columns from the same part of the control panel? I really want to avoid them having to be two seperate pages if that makes any sense....

Any thoughts on practicalites of converting the layout in general much appreciated also

Cheers

3stripe

[cyberman]

how hard is it to set up 2 column layouts?

You can see an example page at http://tinyurl.com/nvzlf

Is it possible to set up templates with 2 columns and then edit both columns from the same part of the control panel?

I think it should be really easy - you must only include two content blocks and place it right  ...

If you need more help, please ask.

[3stripe]

Ah content blocks ok - that sounds good!

Should be easier enough then - I'm sure I'll be back with some more questions when I start on the templates but until then thanks again.

[dirtywhitellama]

What I did when I first ported my design over (which I've developed more since then) was to just copy the html of an existing page, put it into a template, replace the title in and in the bar on the top of the page with {title}.  Then where my text was I put the {content} tag.  For two content blocks you would put {content block="column1"}  and {content block="column2"}  (or whatever names you prefer) in each one. Then on the add/ edit content page, you will have two boxes to put content into.

[cyberman]

Your second alternative - this one have nothing to do with global content blocks.

[dirtywhitellama]

I was not speaking of global content blocks at all.

When you have multiple {content} tags with a different block=  on them, you will have more than one place to put content when you add or edit pages from the pages list.