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Thanks, Moshu. The Vesuvius theme is a lot closer to what I was seeking. Sorry to have cluttered up the forum with my messy CSS. How else does one learn?

I’ve reduced all column widths of the three columns to see if that will make IE work. No go… Also looked at links, elements, etc. to see if one was overly long. I’ve just started the blog, so there isn’t much to check. Can anyone see something in my body CSS that might be causing this? Again, FF displays all three columns.
I’m having a problem with my menu dropping to bottom of content section. This happens when I “float: left;” the lefthand menu in a 3-col format. When I use “position: absolute; for the menu, it works in Firefox but not in IE. Here’s the CSS for my BODY & PAGE LAYOUT:

body {
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 18px;
font-family: Verdana, Georgia, “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;
margin: 20px;
}

#rap {
background: #fff url(‘bg1.gif’) repeat-y left;
margin: 0px 200px 0px 0px;
border-bottom: 0;
text-align: left; /* IE 5.5 hack part II */
}

#masthead {
background: #90a090;
border-bottom: double 3px #aba;
font: italic normal 100% ‘Times New Roman’, Times, serif;
letter-spacing: 0.2em;
margin: 0;
padding: 15px 10px 15px 60px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #565;
}

#main {
backgound: #fff;
margin-left: 225px;
top: 155px;
width: 280px;
border: 1px solid #000;
height: 100%;
}

#content {
float: left;
width: 280px;
}

#menu {
background: #fff;
float: left;
left: 20px;
border: 1px solid #000;
width: 125px;
}

#rmenu {
background: #fff;
position: absolute;
right: 250px;
top: 135px;
border: 1px solid #000;
width: 185px;
}

.clearer {
clear: both;
height: 0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

#footer {
margin-bottom: 0;

I, too, am impressed by your 3-col design. You seem to have overcome problems that I’ve had trying to modify the Trident 3-col theme to create three separate columns and a header. I can get my them to work in Firefox but in IE when I “float: left” the lefthand menu, the menu drops to the bottom of the center-column content. When I use “position: absolute” for the left-hand menu, it disappears completely in IE. I’ve fiddled with the margins and column widths, reducing them to see if that would work, but to no help. Any ideas? Would you be willing to share the Body part of your theme, so that I might see how you’ve overcome or avoided these problems?

I tried to download the Rin Tin Tin theme from your site, thinking that it might help me to unravel the problem that I’m having modifying the 3-col Trident WordPress theme. Everytime I try to unzip the archive with your theme, I get a message that it’s not a valid archive. Maybe I need to finally buy Winzip–the evaluation program doesn’t seem to want to work. The zipped archive files (I downloaded the two versions) are 155KB each. Any suggestions?