Why don't you make uniform use of the IM ( Read More ) function.
That way you can have a set amount of words for each post, followed by the "read more" link.
That will give you a more even column height for each post...

Yes, consider such and as you would note, the IM function is used. However, some posts require a longer intro to ensure the salient points of the article are presented. It is a possible comprise, but ideal I am not seeking to compromise the way posts are made.

I can understand that, and I would even suggest that the two column post design is unsuitable for the subject matter.

It would seem more suitable to have a normal 5 or 6 post per page layout but with a well located list of your last 20 posts, by title.

Each of the "Read More" links seem to link to external press articles etc, than to the remainder of the storey.

What feedback do you get from site visitors?

You may like to [url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.vesnsw.org.au/ves/index.php/test/]validate[/url] your skin ;)

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¥åßßå, an apology. I started this test skin directly from the Custom skin, only making changes as per your 2007 post. I did not consider re-validation necessary. A mistake which is now corrected.
To validate, I turned off the Archive widget (to achieve a quick validation as there was a style error in it), but more importantly had to change your 2007 code by replacing <div id= ....> with <div class= ...> to achieve validation.
I still have the same issue about spacing in the right column posts. Is there a way to resolve this issue?

You must have a mistake in your code as there wouldn't have been a clash with id="rightside", also your <div id="leftside"> is empty. If you can cure that it'll cure your problem ;)

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¥åßßå - notwithstanding your help, I have come to the end of my efforts here. The left column only now shows with no <div> rightList showing at all in the source code when run. It appears that the column is not breaking half way through and ignoring the instruction. I even changed skin but to no avail.

Any thoughts?

I'd probably need a copy of your skin before I could see where you've gone wrong ... or where the original post is wrong ;)

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I have included a copy of the index.main.php file in the post at http://www.vesnsw.org.au/ves/index.php/test/2009/05/20/title-8 and it includes changes to the css file.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

The page is running in Version 3.1.0-beta but I had exactly the same problem in V2.4.1 and moved up to the beta to ensure that I was working from a clean version (ensuring that any changes I had made to V2.4.1 files would not be an issue).

Change this bit of the hack ;)

		while( $Item = & mainlist_get_item() )
		{	// For each blog post, do everything below up to the closing curly brace "}"
if( $disp == 'posts' and ( intval( $MainList->result_num_rows / 2 ) + 1 ) == $MainList->current_idx )

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You are a marvel - thanks for the help.

No worries ;)

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¥åßßå - when all is good along comes the good folk to make it better - sort of. I just looked at the V3.2.0 beta upgrade and am all at a loss as to how to implement the two column arrangement. It appears that the re-design of what is where etc has completely changed the landscape.

Any thoughts?

Thoughts :

It's a beta
... be cool if it could work though
... pretty sure it can
...
It's a beta

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Thanks for that. It would be good if it could work once it goes stable

All works with V3.3.0-rc1 following a bit of tweaking.

Thanks for the help over the past months.