Half screen and full screen blocks?

What do you mean by halfscreen block, that there are two columns for part of the display?

The simplified code is

<div id="content">  <!--  float: left -->

   ---- full width code     (image display) -----

   <div class="column">  <!--  left col -->
      ---- code -----
   </div>

   <div class="column">   <!-- right column -->
      ---- code -----
   </div>
 -----   more full width code -----
</div>

The css for class column includes

#content .column {
   float: left;
   width: 49%;
}

Yes, thanks, I mean two columns – left and right.

The theme I linked to seems to have items matching one category in the left block and another category in the right block.

Is there a plug-in that will do that for me or do I need to edit code?

Hi

Here is a sample of the loop that you put in each of those columns. $recent is the name of a variable. Use a different variable name in each block. Both will start with a $ cat=1 means include the category that has the category ID #1 showposts means the max # of posts to include

To find the cat ID, go to the category maint screen – point at the name of the cat – look in the lower left corner at the browser’s status line – you will see a URL – the cat ID is at the end of that URL.

<div class="featured">
   <?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=1&amp;showposts=1"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
     <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
	<?php the_content(__('Read the story &raquo;'));?>
   <?php endwhile; ?>
</div>