Let me start off by saying that I think this particular theme is great out the box. Its clean, clutter free, and very easy to work with. I do have one qualm though, the lack of "true" sidebars on either side. Given the nature of the design I see why the option was never given but I need a little more room. I'm brand spanking new to CSS(never even seen it till the other day) and was hoping someone could point out what code would need to be added/edited to create these sidebars in CSS, page.tpl.php file or any other method available.

I've researched how to create blocks and regions but I can't get the newly made region to the proper locations. Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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danpros’s picture

danpros CreditAttribution: danpros commented

Hi,

To adding new sidebar on the left it will pretty tricky since the image only has that size (by design). You can adding new region on page.tpl.php than call the region in metropolis.info.

				<div id="container-inner">
					<div id="content-wrapper" class="clearfix">
						<?php if ($left): ?>
							<div id="sidebar-left" class="sidebar">
								<?php print $left; ?>
							</div>
						<?php endif; ?>
						<div id="main-content">
							<?php if($content_top):?><div id="content-top"><?php print ($content_top); ?></div><?php endif; ?>
							<?php if ($show_messages) { print $messages; }; ?>
							<?php if ($tabs) : ?><div class="tabs"><?php print $tabs; ?></div><?php endif; ?>
							<?php if ($title) : ?><h1 class="title"><?php print $title; ?></h1><?php endif; ?>
							<?php print $help; ?>
							<?php if ($content) : ?><?php print $content; ?><?php endif; ?>
						</div>
						<?php if ($right): ?>
							<div id="sidebar-right" class="sidebar"> <!-- sidebar-right -->
								<?php print $right; ?>
							</div>
						<?php endif; ?>
						<div class="clearfix"></div>
					</div> <!-- end content wrapper-->
				</div> <!-- end container inner -->

We will considering to adding new sidebar in our next release.

Dan

OrthoHQ’s picture

OrthoHQ CreditAttribution: OrthoHQ commented

Thanks for the reply, I originally tried using that code but the block always ends up in an odd location (Never on the far left side). In the CSS code I saw notations of "margins". Logically this seems like the thing to edit but I'm pretty sure that would affect the entire page globally. Is there a way to allow just this block permission to got beyond the margin?