By kitty on

hi there:
I have downloaded a couple of themes here that have 3 columns in the demo pics, however I dont see a place to activate my theme for 3 columns. The themes am trying to use are democratica, friendselectric and kubric; Can anyone please help me and tell me where to do it.
Today is my first ever drupal installation, so forgive me if this is too NOOB of a question.

Thanks

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serkan_isin’s picture

serkan_isin commented

Maybe a search would help in the handbooks section but in admin part you can easily configure blocks whether to be displayed in right or left..

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djpappas commented

With any of the themes listed, if you look at the source you'll discover that the div or table column is being generated - but it is empty. You'll need to go to block adminstration and configure at least two blocks so that you have content in both your left and right columns.

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merlinofchaos commented

The styles are all 3 columns in the sense that they have 2 sidebars and a center point for content. The sidebars are not as much customizable on a per-node basis.

The above is not entirely true: Look at the sidecontent module to create a second column. It's not exactly ideal but it can be used with one of the sidebars.

You can also look at my dashboard module to create a static page with 2 column content.

Both are available in downloads->modules from here.

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kitty’s picture

kitty commented

Hello
Thanks for the quick reply. It appears that I had to check a box to enable some of those modules.
Thank you again. Now its looking pretty :)