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Thanks Andy…

This is very much a different way of laying out columns for me and maybe for others, I would normally set the width of each column and not use margins like in this theme (BP 1.2 Default “BETA”), but I can greatly see the benefit of doing it this way for fluid screen use….

Anyway I have figured it out, If ‘nickmy’ or anyone one else wishes to add three column the code changes are as follows:

ADD THE FOLLOWING TO THE DEFAULT.CSS:-

float: left;

width: 225px;

margin-right: -226px;

margin-top: 1px;

border-right:1px solid #e4e4e4;

-moz-border-radius-topleft: 3px;

-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 3px;

background: url( ../images/sidebar_back.gif ) top left repeat-x;

}

ADD THE FOLLOWING TO (div#content .padder):-

margin-left: 225px;

border-right: 1px solid #e4e4e4;

CREATE A FILE CALLED “sidebar-left.php” IN THE BP-DEFAULT THEME DIRECTORY, CONTAINING THE FOLLOWING:

<div id=”sidebar-left”>

<div class=”padder”>

This is where your left content can go…

</div>

</div>

ADD THE FOLLOWING TO IN THE APPROPRIATE THEME TEMPLATES: (eg single.php)

<?php locate_template( array( ‘sidebar-left.php’ ), true ) ?>

///Note this needs to be instead between the <?php get_header() ?> and <div id=”content”> ///

Then your done… You could go one step more and add the function of “register_sidebar” bar to the functions.php, but I will not go there right now as there plenty of documents and articles on how to do this…

Hope this helps anyone else who may have the same problem…