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Ive installed CMSMS yesterday and had a little play around with it but im having problems with the layouts

i added more layouts too but cant get the hang of it - a lot of the layouts ive looked at have a side bar which is for the navigation but i want that at the top rather than the side but keep sidebar for other things too....

I wanted a standard fixed width layout - quite wide with a banner at the top, below it the navigation (2 rows as i have a lot of links) and then the content but i wanted the main content on the left and then a sidebar on the right

but some pages i dont want a sidebar, is there a way to customise it for different pages like news page i may want the sidebar for links to other news/links etc but on other pages i dont want the sidebar just have all main content in the main content area (but will obv be wider as will fill where the sidebar was)

that prob sounds confusing, sorry if i havent explained it well!

Hope someone can help

KrazyKel,

there are some default templates coming with the installation, that have the horizontal navigation as you wanted, You might want to check that logic to see if that suits you. The stylesheets attached describe the method to have the sidebar on the right, basically you have to switch the "float" from left to right.

As for different loks on different pages, you attach a template to a page, so if you have different templates, you can assign the wanted template to the page that requires a different layout.

For the fixed width. If you check the stylesheet of your template, you'll see the "pagewrapper" with a width in "em", min and max. If you want a fixed width, just change the min-max value to the same pixel-width you want. Change the #pagewrapper in your template as well (for IE6 and lower), there is a MinMax, calling there, change that to the same value as well.

Ronny