leftside bar

[Joe C]

Alright here is my site

www.josephcarl.com

im trying to add a left sidebar and the middles posts would align up with the banner with a side bar on each side.

the right one is there but the left one isnt

I cant seem to get the leftside bar to register.

I am using wordpress.

here is my index.php

<?php
get_header();
?>


<div align="center">
<div id="content">
<div id="main">
<div class="top"></div>
<div id="main_content">

<?php if (is_category()) { ?>
<h2 class="pagetitle">'<?php echo single_cat_title(); ?>' Category</h2>
<div id="category-description"> <?php echo category_description(); ?> </div>
<?php } ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post">
<div class="data">
<?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?>
</div>
<h3 class="storytitle" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a></h3>
<div class="autor">
<?php the_category(', ') ?>
<?php edit_post_link('Edit','|',''); ?>
</div>
<div class="storycontent">
<?php
if (is_category()) {
the_excerpt();
} else {
the_content(__('(more...)'));
} ?>
</div>
<div class="feedback">
<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
<?php comments_popup_link(__('0 Comments'), __('1 Comments'), __('% Comments')); ?>
</div>
<!--<?php trackback_rdf(); ?>-->
</div>
<?php comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p>
<?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>
</p>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php posts_nav_link(' — ', __('« Previous Page'), __('Next Page »')); ?>
</div>
<div class="bottom"></div>
</div>
<div id="sidebar">
<div class="top"></div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<div id="sidebar">

<div class="bottom"></div>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
</div>
</div>

i tried a tutorial.... ( that didnt work) and I have a sidebarleft.php created with:

<div>
<ul>
<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(2) ) : else : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</ul>
</div>

in it.

I am also told i need to probley mess with the css

*/

blockquote {
color: #336633;
font-style: italic;
}

body {
background: #0E0E0E url(images/bg.gif) repeat-x top fixed;
line-height:16px;
font-size:12px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#E4E4E4;
}

#headerimg {
margin: 35px 0px 10px 0px;
background: url(images/title.jpg) no-repeat;
height: 94px;
width: 577px;
}

#title {
font-size: 28px;
font-weight: normal;
color: #97CA00;
padding: 30px 0px 0px 0px;
}

#description {
color: #E3E3E3;
margin-top: 20px;
}

#content {
margin-top: 10px;
width: 810px;
}

#sidebar {
width: 180px;
background:url(images/side_mid.jpg) repeat-y;
float:right;
}
#sidebar .top {
background:url(images/side_top.jpg) no-repeat top;
height: 13px;
}
#sidebar .bottom {
background:url(images/side_bottom.jpg) no-repeat bottom;
height: 20px;
}

#main {
float:left;
width: 577px;
background:url(images/main_mid.jpg) repeat-y;
margin: 0px 15px;
text-align: left;
}
#main .top {
height:58px;
background:url(images/main_top.jpg) no-repeat top;
}
#main .bottom {
height:14px;
background:url(images/main_bottom.jpg) no-repeat top;
}

a, a:visited, a:active, a:hover{
color: #9c3;
text-decoration:none;
}
a:hover{
text-decoration:underline;
}

#main_content {
padding: 0px 10px;
}

.post {
padding: 0px;
}

form {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

input {
background: #F8F8F8;
border-color: #999999;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
font-size: 11px;
}

li#about {
font-size: 10px;
}

p.comment_meta {
font-size: .9em;
margin: 0 0 10px 10px;
}

select {
border: 1px solid #003300;
color: #333333;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
margin: 5px;
padding-left: 3px;
}

textarea {
border: 1px solid #999999;
font-size: 11px;
font-variant: normal;
margin: 5px;
margin: 5px;
padding: 3px;
padding: 3px;
width: 95%;
}

textarea:hover {
}

.autor {
border-bottom: 1px dotted #999999;
font-size: 10px;
}

.commentlist {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

.commentlist li {
border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
list-style: none;
margin: 10px;
padding: 10px 10px 0 10px;
}

.commentlist li:hover {
border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}

.data{
color: #3D3D3D;
font-size: 13px;
margin-top: 5px;
text-align: right;
}

.feedback {
border: 1px solid #333333;
margin-bottom: 12px;
padding: 3px;
}

.image-align-left {
float: left;
padding: 4px;
}

.image-align-right {
float: right;
padding: 4px;
}

.meta {
color: #999999;
float: left;
font-size: 10px;
}

.storycontent {
line-height: 130%;
padding-top: 10px;
}

.storytitle {
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: bold;
margin-bottom: 2px;
padding-top: 2px;
text-align: left;
}

.storytitle a:link, .storytitle a:visited, .storytitle a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
}


#sidebar {
text-align: right;
}

#sidebar h2 {
color: #666666;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: bold;
height: 20px;
margin: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-top: 10px;
text-align: right;
}

#sidebar ul {
list-style: none;
margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px;
padding: 0px;
padding-right: 10px;
text-align: right;
}

#sidebar ul li {
padding-bottom: 3px;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-top: 3px;
text-align: right;
list-style: none;
}

#sidebar ul li ul {
list-style: none;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px;
padding: 0px;
text-align: right;
}

#sidebar ul li ul li {
border: none;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-top: 2px;
text-align: right;
}

input, textarea {
color: #CCCCCC;
border: 1px solid #999;
background-color:#333333;
}

input {
color: #9c3;
}

#submit {
cursor: pointer;
cursor: hand;
height: 22px;
margin: 0px;
float: right;
text-align:center;
padding: 0px 4px;
}

#s {
height: 17px;
margin: 0px;
width: 90px;
padding: 0px;
float: right;
padding-top: 3px;
border-right-width: 0px;
}

#subnav {
color: #999999;
float: right;
margin-right: 5px;
margin-top: -20px;
}

#subnav a:link, #subnav a:visited {
color: #666666;
font-size: 9px;
font-weight: normal;
text-transform: uppercase;
}

#subnav a:hover {
color: #000000;
}

small, small a:link, small a:visited {
color: #666666;
}

a img {
border-width: 0px;
}

#footer {
background: #0E0E0E;
font-size: 10px;
text-align: right;
margin-top: 20px;
}

i am very lost in all of this and have tried numberous things to get this sidebar to register.

any coding masters that could help?

[comicIDIOT]

I think your problem lies within the sidebar.php. Since your file doesn't start with "<?php" it could be throwing something off. Try renaming the suffix .html. If that doesn't work, then I'm sorry, I can't be of much more help.

As for your CSS, I'll take a look. Everything seemed fine on a quick glance through. But I'm a CSS n00bie, well, advanced n00bie. And I'm having problems with one of my CSS styles. So, most of my focus is there at the moment!

[Joe C]

im pretty sure the css is fine buts its just adding more in so that it styles in that new left sidebar on each page, and ive been told theres is most likely a problem with DIV in the index.php but i cant quite track it down or how to fix it....

[comicIDIOT]

I copied index.php to Dreamweaver, and you have a lot of instances of "<?php ... >" I think more than you need. Like, this portion towards the top<div class="autor">
<?php the_category(', ') ?>
<?php edit_post_link('Edit','|',''); ?>
</div>could easily be<div class="autor">
<?php the_category(', ');
edit_post_link('Edit','|',''); ?>
</div>

Also, you can keep the PHP within one set of <?php > tags, just echo-echo()-all the HTML. Maybe it's print(). Not sure, been a few years but I think you can use both to post HTML within PHP. Your CSS appears flawless-alas, to me.

[Bobby Hensley]

Feb 11, 2009 20:22:28 GMT comicIDIOT said:

I copied index.php to Dreamweaver, and you have a lot of instances of "<?php ... >" I think more than you need. Like, this portion towards the top<div class="autor">
<?php the_category(', ') ?>
<?php edit_post_link('Edit','|',''); ?>
</div>could easily be<div class="autor">
<?php the_category(', ');
edit_post_link('Edit','|',''); ?>
</div>

Also, you can keep the PHP within one set of <?php > tags, just echo-echo()-all the HTML. Maybe it's print(). Not sure, been a few years but I think you can use both to post HTML within PHP. Your CSS appears flawless-alas, to me.

<?php

echo <<<END
HTML code here, PHP variables can be used freely
END;

?>

The PHP Manual is rather useful.

[comicIDIOT]

Feb 11, 2009 22:46:02 GMT Bobby Hensley said:

<?php

echo <<<END
HTML code here, PHP variables can be used freely
END;

?>

The PHP Manual is rather useful.

Ah, thanks there for the clarfication I thought about checking with php.net's database but arrogance got the best of me.

[Joe C]

Oh god im still lost