How do I split the menu from news in the sidebar

[mikehenson]

I'm using the latest release of cmsms and the default template/stylesheet.

The menu and news are on the left and styled as sidebar.

What I'd like to do is to move news over to the right whilst leaving the menu in situ on the left.

Can anyone advise please?

[Dr.CSS]

Have you looked in the template to see where the calls for these are now?...

Have you looked to see if there are any 3 col. templates you could get some coding ideas from?...

[mikehenson]

"calls", "coding ideas"

Suggestions like this are fine when you're talking to someone who knows what they doing or has a grasp of the subject but they're singularly unhelpful to people, like me, who are new and quite frankly not very helpful.

[calguy1000]

Then I suggest you play around for a while and learn the system..... and then you can place some well worded, well researched questions from a position of some knowledge and experience.

[mikehenson]

Nobody is going to learn anything from unhelpful comments, poor documentation and a forum that seems to try to react to all releases without and segregation.

What's fascinating about this forum is that it seems to be almost entirely populated by power posters - no doubt the novices who came here for help went elsewhere?

[calguy1000]

CMS Made simple is not designed for somebody that's looking for a replacement to 'frontpage'....  it's designed and works well for professional or semi-professional, experienced web developers who want a 'simple' way to make websites that later their customers can maintain.

If you're not a professional, or semi-professional, experienced web developer, then you need to get up-to-speed at least somewhat before posting questions like this.

If you happen to be a professional, or semi-professional, experienced web developer, and you're just having a 'dumb moment'.  then by reading the appropriate 'page template'.... under 'Layout >> Templates' you would see where the news was placed, and how it was placed there.  By looking at that, and the numerous topics in the forum, and in the 'help' pages of the package itself you should be able to get close to figuring it out.

Either way, you posted before looking around, and doing a bit of research on your own.... and without following the rules and recommendations pasted here: http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/board,40.0.html and here http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,4572.0.html

[mikehenson]

Then I suggest you play around for a while and learn the system..... and then you can place some well worded, well researched questions from a position of some knowledge and experience.

What a crass statement.

That's akin to throwing kids who've just learnt to read into a new school with half written books and no teachers!

[Milhaus]

What a crass statement.

Well, I don't think it's crass. I don't think I would be able to do something with any CMS without knowing basics mentioned in your question. I think the hardest part of start phase was learning about module calls and their templates. Great help here is predefined content, installed with the system. Please read it all, before going further, especially if you feel unsure about your knowledge of underlying technology.

If you still feel, that you found some important concepts uncovered in documentation, please post your findings in appropriate section of forum.