There are sure to be many problems that will come up, and I hope you'll comment here when you find them.

Most obvious technical glitch can be found on pages like this one: if the left column is shorter than the right column, the right wraps under the left. Goofy. Don't know if I have the technical ability to fix this, and so... any volunteers? :-)

jared suggested addign this to our right def

width:99%;
background:#FFC;
margin-right:15px;
margin-left:15px;
padding-bottom:20px;
padding-right:20px;
padding-left:20px;

and should fix it. May try in a bit.

That didn't work, but I may have found something that does. please report any bugs.... I want to leave it up just in this blog first to see how it works before porting it over to the main blog.

Your absolute positioning seems to have worked. There seems to be an awfully large gutter between the left and right hand divs though.

Also don't forget to set a background colour for the entire doc. I don't have my default background set to white and get a gray outline around everything.

Funny the other solution didn't work for you.

I think the problem you are having is that the left column is floated, not the right.

Logically, that means that once the floated div ends, the remaining content reflows to fill the space, which is what you would expect.

So, my solution would be to change the div definitions to the other way around, i.e

right{
float:right;
width:35%;}

(edited to avoid confusing browser)

So that once the right div ends, the left can reflow under the menu and fill the page. This may or may not be what you want to happen.

(To make this work, you should have the right div at the top of the source file, then the content.)

CSS is all fun and games, until somebody loses their padding.

I tried Mathews suggestion and it aligns the layer to the right, but pushes the whole column underneath the lefthand column. Too strange.

Hmmm... I didn't see that on IE5.5 or Mozilla 0.9.something or other.

I'll see if I can have a look at that sometime.

Incidentally, the comments preview template seems to make all the fonts HUGE. Unless that is intentional :)

Also, I got an error saying author and email address is required (had only filled in URL). That could use some up front labelling. (I'll have to test that on my own site too)

Sorry. testing.

Jared did the herculean task of moving us into tables, and I caught one last Mt bug so now we shoudl be stable and happy. LMK if anyone has trouble of any sort.