Comments on: Adding a wider-sidebar to your blog

By: viveksanghi

viveksanghi — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:35:12 +0000

Hello Bloggharta. Protesto's problem was posted long ago and since then I have not been in touch with web coding (and Blogger template code). Request you to describe your problem in detail. I am willing to help and want to understand the problem. You can also email me the problem description.

By: Bloggharta

Bloggharta — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:01:07 +0000

Could you help me on my problem! I have similar problem with protesto but I have two part main-widget: one wich you see on frontpage (miniposts) second wich you see when you select one post. Sidebars drops all the time lower when i post something on my blog! Could you help me? I tried that protestos css-change but i think i missed something

By: dvallen

dvallen — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:54:00 +0000

how to create a wide bar in the bootom. in my footer side bar ( left )

By: Padhy

Padhy — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:59:00 +0000

Hi Vivek,

I was routed here thru ramani’s blog. Thansk for the info. I need a help here, you can see my blog, and i need two more side bars…both to put feeds alone…one from news channels and another from blogs. I dont want to put the feeds with the other items i have in the side bar…can u help me? iam not a techie!!

By: Alchemist Sashi

Alchemist Sashi — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:14:00 +0000

Wow, very nice tutorial! I got it working in my blog, although I did run into various… difficulties, most of which I think were based on the structure of the original layout. Almost all of them were solvable with various CSS measures, and luckily I had enough experience with CSS to figure it out on my own.

If you want to check out what I’ve done, you can find it at http://the-shining-path.blogspot.com.

Thanks again, and good luck on future hacks ^^

By: annie

annie — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:17:00 +0000

Vivek, I padded the main content. And it works. Only drawback I have now is on the home page. I have a huge empty space at the bottom of my last post. But I will live with that until I figure out something, or someone else figures out something. So, if another fix comes in, let me know.

By: Vivek Sanghi

Vivek Sanghi — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:12:00 +0000

Hello Annie. Thanks for your fluid style tutorial including the widebar hack. The problem you have mentioned can be fixed. Please follow the comment discussion here or look at the code here. Let me know if this does not fix the issue. Cheers!

By: annie

annie — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:14:00 +0000

Vivek, I have loved this idea since I first saw it. I finally got around to making it fluid for my blog. (I just did a post about that.)

It works great on the main page and post pages. But when I click on a label in my tag cloud, the sidebars are spread out all over the page. What can I do to make it look like the main page?

By: Vivek Sanghi

Vivek Sanghi — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:09:00 +0000

Hello Alison. From what I understood, I think this issue can be resolved by modding the padding values for the main section of the blog (see earlier comments). However, I am not sure if I understand your query exactly, therefore I suggest that you email me your template code (unexpanded widgets) as a text file attachment along with a screen-shot of the problem you are facing and I will try to fix the issue for you. cheers!

By: Alison Croggon

Alison Croggon — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:19:00 +0000

Hi Vivek

Overcome by list for a widebar, but I can't get y sidebars to behave. When I change their order in my template (hacked three column Mr Moto) either one of the sidebars appears on top or they both meekly move to the far right, one under the other, leave a blank space where sidebar 1 used to be.

I realise it's to do with the ordering (probably) in the div sections, but mine seems tyrannical about only allowing sidebars above and below the main -

any suggestions?