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For some reason, this thread keeps disappearing from the list of topics for this forum. Why? I don’t know.

You have one CSS error:
https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=https://www.moltenwords.net/wp-layout3.css
In the following portion:
.storytitle {
margin: 0;
padding: 5px 10px 5 px 10px;
the third option has a space between the 5 and the px.

It is a helpful article, but it’s about two columns, not three.

Nope. Tried that already.
If you use absolutely positioned divs, and you have varying column lengths, the footer won’t go to the bottom.

No, I don’t care about that. I just want the div containing the main column text to appear first in the html file, even though it is the second column reading left to right.

I haven’t seen one that will work.

That looks good.
I need to add a couple of features to my list.
* It can’t use tables for laying out the columns. (cantboilwater.com does not use tables and thus meets this criterion)
* The columns must be able to appear in any order in the HTML. For example if the columns were numbered from left to right as 1, 2, 3, the columns must be able to appear in the HTML in the order of 2, 1, 3, or any other variation without affecting the look of the site.
The last one is important for accessibility. A “skip to content” link is a compromise that some will find acceptable, but I don’t.
I don’t think the middle column of cantboilwater.com could be moved ahead of the two navigation links columns. Thus it doesn’t meet the criteria.
Nice blog, BTW.

After much head banging against the web site, I’ve discovered a couple of things. I want to relate them here so maybe someone doesn’t make the same mistakes.
I wanted a layout for my WordPress blog that had the following features:
* Header on top
* Three column layout, all of the columns stretching all of the way to the bottom.
* Footer always at the bottom, no matter which of the three columns was the longest on any one page.
* No Javascript
* No CSS hacks
Eventually I ran across the solution. There is no solution. That combination is impossible.
Maybe someday the Internet architects and the W3C will get together a create a solution for this, but it hasn’t happened yet. There is no standard that allows the above, and there is no web browser out there that can implement any such thing, mostly because the standard does not exist.
If you are willing to sacrifice one or more of the features in the combination I listed above, then your project might be feasible. Otherwise, forget it.
I am dumping the idea of a three-column blog and moving to a two-column blog. Then I am going to try and make the best out of the situation.
Sorry to be so stern, but if I would have read this basic message a long time ago, I wouldn’t have wasted so much time.

Thanks for fixing my bustage.
Bad news is: I don’t want to encode. I want the I tag or EM tag and any other tag to always be stripped from the TITLE attributes just as it is stripped from TITLE tags.
I want to make only parts of titles in italics when displayed in layout.
For example, in the following title:
Review of <i>Lord of the Rings</i>
I want “Review of” to be normal and “Lord of the Rings” to be italicized.
The good news: I fixed some other validation problems on my front page and now the page is validating. Still, I don’t want to pass I or EM tags in the middle of titles of things to RSS feeds or the like. It doesn’t sound right.
I love that encoder widget!
Thanks for your help!

Rats. HTML ruinage. Sorry.

Saw this problem in 1.0.1. Came here on Google search. Then found another forum post.
I fixed this blockquote problem by setting “balance tags” to “false” (in options).

“define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘*****************’);”
Turns out my password was too long! Shortening it got it working.

The hostname “localhost” seems to be the right one.
I made sure to upload all the files in ASCII mode. I am on a shared Linux server hosted by UCVHost.
I created the MySQL database through the Plesk administrative interface on my server. At this point, I’m not sure I created database in the correct way. I don’t have telnet access so I can’t just try to connect to the MySQL database that way. I am talking to technical support with UCVHost about the database.