How do I change the layout
of my blog? I found that I usually write pretty long texts and it seems rather wasteful to me only to use a third of the available space. I would like to broaden the text/story column and move the menu/status column to the right. I suppose I have to change the skin settings (?), but how and which ones? Is there some kind of manual online here? Thanks in advance, Baba
nex
the building blocks of your site are macros, which you put into your skin. with them, you define what gets displayed where. a manual for the macros is in the making; very good explanations for a good part of the macros are already available at macros.antville.org. when you edit a skin, you get a list of all macros that are available in that particular skin, hyperlinked to available documentation.
how elements are displayed is defined in your stylesheet skin, which is in css format. if you don't know css, i recommend learning the basics at w3schools, which is a very nice site because you get examples with which you can play around directly on the site. once you grok the look and feel of css (e.g., how colours or distance measures are written), you're maybe able to glark everything you need to change from your stylesheet skin and make the appropriate changes. if not, you should use the official definitions from w3 for reference.
by the way, one thing css should teach you is to never, never ever use (x)html tables for layouting or generally anything else than representation of tabular data. however, the default antville skins do that. i'm currently working on a better solution and refuse to deal with table layouts any longer, so i won't help you with your particular problem ;-p (but trust me, finding out yourself and actually knowing what you are doing is better anyway.)
BabaJaga
Thanks, you've certainly given me something to think about :-) and I certainly agree with your point on knowing by oneself what to do. Bye, Baba