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4 Nov 2007, 1:12 PM
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Tip: Turning off the left column.

Hey,

Carol ( my wife ) wanted to move the side boxes to the right side. So being the dutiful husband that I am I tried to figure out how to do that.

I went through the code and messed around for half a day until I accidentally stumbled on the proper method for doing this in the admin section. duh.

You go into admin
configuration
Layout Settings
Column Left Status = 0

Make sure you set the following as well.

Column Left - side boxes = 0
Column Left = 0

Don't forget to move everything to the right or you'll look silly like I did.

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4 Nov 2007, 3:07 PM
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Re: Tip: Turning off the left column.

birdoasis:

Carol ( my wife ) wanted to move the side boxes to the right side. So being the dutiful husband that I am I tried to figure out how to do that.

I went through the code and messed around for half a day until I accidentally stumbled on the proper method for doing this in the admin section. ...
Don't forget to move everything to the right or you'll look silly like I did.

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13 Feb 2008, 2:16 AM
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Re: Tip: Turning off the left column.

What am i doing wrong?

I set
Column Width - Right to 0
and
Column Width - Right Boxes = 0

but I still cant seem to get rid of the right column.

http://www.costombs.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=10

(please excuse kreepy karen... Yes she is a true prop I can sell)

13 Feb 2008, 2:23 AM
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Re: Tip: Turning off the left column.

You left out the critical part that birdoasis mentioned:

You go into admin
configuration
Layout Settings
Column Left Status - Global = 0

(The
Column Width - Right
and
Column Width - Right Boxes
are actually irrelevant and don't need to be touched if you don't want to.)

13 Feb 2008, 2:35 AM
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Re: Tip: Turning off the left column.

Actually I just did not write that in...

my

Column Right Status - Global is set to 0

But I still have that gray box as previously linked

13 Feb 2008, 2:37 AM
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Re: Tip: Turning off the left column.

Ask the template designer.

Please do not PM for support issues: a private solution doesn't benefit the community.

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13 Feb 2008, 2:50 AM
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Re: Tip: Turning off the left column.

Its Cherry_red off the download section.

Helps to read the readme file :D

  1. To have ONLY left sideboxes, open up includes/templates/cherry_zen/css/stylesheet.css and remove the padding-right from the .outer section:

.outer {
padding-left: 165px; /* Same width as margin-left for the float-wrap div /
padding-right: 150px; /
Our right column width */
}

and remove the background image from #contentMainWrapper.

13 Feb 2008, 3:07 AM
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Re: Tip: Turning off the left column.

Your template is heavily reworked and hard to find the cause of the spacing. The gray box is caused by this in your stylesheet:```
#contentMainWrapper {
background:url("../images/sidebox.gif") 100% 0 repeat-y; /* This is the right column background "faked" with an image. */
background-color:#ffffff; /*background color for the main "content" of the site */
}