Totaly Weird Custom Sidebox Mod Needed!

[wlamoreaux]

I need to combine the search, catagories & information side box into one side box.

Reason i am doing this is because my design is to have those three box's on a single parchment paper with a header, footer and right side graphic with those three box's inbetween the header and footer.

for an example go here.
http://nag.infordomain.net/darkcandles25aug08/

and you will see what i am trying to do.

now that's just a mock up for a site so it's non functional but i need to get zen to do that.

If this needs to be hard coded and can not be done via the style sheets and such then that's ok. the search and information side box will not ever get changed.

Thank you in advance

[gjh42]

You could modify column_left.php to wrap one or more divs around the first three sideboxes (or whatever grouping you want), and apply the parchment styling to those.

But the easier (and probably just as effective) approach would be to cut the parchment image into top, middle and bottom sections (with extra height for any box that could be variable in size) and apply them to the sidebox ids.

#search {
    background: url(../images/parch_top.gif) no-repeat;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    border: none;
    }
#categories {
    background: url(../images/parch_middle.gif) repeat-y;
    margin-top: 0;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    border: none;
    }
#information {
    background: url(../images/parch_bottom.gif) no-repeat;
    margin-top: 0;
    border: none;
    }

Setting the adjoining margins to 0 will make the boxes appear as one seamless unit. You would also want to set their headings to have no background/borders etc.