otherwise you can pester atthe404 to see if he can explain his gemini theme to you, which does two full-length columns.

I was hoping someone could help me with 2 issues at this point:

- my left sidebar (class "primary") ends abruptly after all the widgets are shown, but I want it to extend to the footer. I thought "height: 100%" in the CSS would do the trick but no dice. I would like to extend it consistent with the "content" class it borders.

- I'm having issues using "float." I can float my primary sidebar to the left (hurray!) but can't get my content box to run up against it. I've tried A LOT to get this to work (including removing floats and all sorts of crazy stuff). Any thoughts?

Note: everything was done in the Sandbox no-CSS theme. Thanks for your help!

if you want to use one of the standard layouts as a base, you can just copy the css into your edit css page

you can get the stylesheets here: http://s.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/sandbox/skins/2c-l.css
(the Global Navigation: N flag is the reason you can't just use the skin menu)

I like the category navigation bar that you get with Ambiru, Blix, etc. Is it possible to code for something like this in Sandbox as well? I'm thinking you could use a text box with HTML, essentially borrowing the code from another theme, but I could be way off.

so you can use

body.s-category-blogging {
background: blue;
}

for example.

categories are also applied to posts, so you could use

div.category-blogging {
background: blue;
}

you can read more about it here:
http://s.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/sandbox/readme.html

I'd like to make the background color change depending on what category the person is viewing. While CSS seems pretty powerful for modifying different sections of a page, I don't see that there's a tag or trigger that keeps track of which category is currently being viewed.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!