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Modifying theme to display a 'split' column

Asked by sspeedy00 in WordPress, Blogs, PHP and Databases

Tags: Atahualpa, wordpress theme, split column, splitting a column, splitting a column in wordpress

Hey everyone,

I've mainly been a .NET programmer for about 2 years now (I have a degree in comp sci should I should be able to pick up any language!)  I'm about to start an online blog/community using WordPress.  Time is an issue, so I picked WP and a theme.  I was thinking about a free theme vs. Thesis and stumbled upon Atahualpa (free).  So that's what I'm using now.  (It can be downloaded here, if anyone needs to play with it: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/atahualpa )

Anyway, so I don't have experience with WP, PHP, and know basics of CSS.  What I'm looking to do is, take that center column and have it display 'featured post' which takes up the whole width of the center column.  Then, the center column can be split to display News posts on left and Deals posts on the right.  I hate to do this but if you take a look at problogger.net, you'll probably see what I mean.  Not trying to copy a design, but when I drew it on paper, that's probably the best design for what I'm trying to accomplish here.

So, how do I go about making these "tweaks"?  Does it occur in the loop..?  I see the loop has these.. uh, php tags that display the KICKER, BYLINE, Body, etc.  Or do I directly manipulate the CSS file?

I'm guessing to display the feature post, I'd have to have a feature category, and for news and deals, news and deal categories.  Not sure how this all works as I'm new to WP.

If not possible, then please suggest another theme that can accomplish this.  I'm willing to 'hack it up' and do this with Atahualpa if someone can help me here.

TIA.
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