create a simple html sidebar - html

All I look for is a simple sidebar for a simple website. Google results have everything about sidebar except for creating a simple side bar with minimal codes. They are so confusing, Still I have no idea about how to create a side bar. Should I use aside tag or using div? There is no clear explanation. One might help me telling what way they usually use.
My default CSS is twitter bootstrap

Since you're already using Bootstrap, you could just use the container-fluid class, which should generate two columns for you - the leftmost one a sidebar. Just add some additional CSS to add a border on that column and you'll have your sidebar in at most 4 lines of CSS code.
See "Fluid Layout" here: http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/2.3.2/scaffolding.html#layouts

you could check this link for more info http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/115-dont-overthink-it-grids/
depending of what the content is on your sidebar you could use if the content within the sidebar is related to the content in general the aside is a good option. If it is not the you could just add a new div and style it. Another option is to use if the aside doesn't quite fit the bill.

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Sticky header and footer while vertical-aligning content to center

I'm trying to achieve the solutions for sticky header and footer from here, and centering content vertically from here.
However I'm unable to get the content centered.
Here's my experiment.
Should I use a simple table instead?
You can achieve it using "calc" and "Flexbox" instead of using table. But it may require some css skill since flex-box is quite new.
Check out this link - http://liveweave.com/5a83eG
Since I'm new in stackoverflow, I can't post more than 2 links. I guess you may google more details about "calc" and "flexbox".

Aligning two elements side by side and forcing them to stay on level

CSS - Floating two elements side by side
This conversation is similar to what I am trying to achieve. I have a % based layout and have an issue either the menu will get mixed in with the content or the content will fall below the menu when the page is shrunk or viewed on a mobile phone. I've spent several hours on this and cant figure out what I am doing incorrectly.
Problem child: https://www.tendercare-inc.com/new/
Update:
My biggest thing was getting something that worked well with Word Press as it uses very awkward controls and element names. I tried starting with _Underscores but it doesn't seem to have helped as much as I thought it would.
The basic problem is that you are specifying percentage based layouts for some elements like menu-sidebar and main-content but you're not consistent. The menu has a min-width of 200px. What do you want to happen when 200px is greater than 15%? Inside the menu you also have elements specified with exact pixel widths — the various cssmenu maker elements.
The site is very simple — basically a header, footer, side menu, and body. Yet you have two style sheets - one with over 800 lines — and a structure with site-content containing content-area containing site-main containing content-container. It's no wonder it's causing you grief. My advice would be to start over with a simple css framework (like bootstrap mentioned by #jaun above. Keep the structure of the html as simple as possible and avoid copy-paste design with things like menus. Also rather than trying things a seeing what's wrong, describe the behavior you want at various screen sizes and make it happen.
You should use bootstrap (getbootstrap.com) you can use col-md-6 clases to do that. Also mobile phone and tablet ajustment is supported

Twitter bootstrap not being mobile friendly

So I am working on a prosject learning twitter bootstrap but got into the problem being that the website is not actually mobile friendly and look bad on big screens.
Here is the link:
jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/6LsG7/
The sticky footer also covers alot of the content.
It seems that you are not using any classes provided by bootstrap. Instead you are creating your own id's? Bootstrap has a structured framework with the use of classes such as "container", "nav", "column".
For you to obtain a responsive design you must abide by the classes pre-provided. Might I suggest you check out a WYSIWYG bootstrap layout maker such as LayoutIt.
Bootstrap comes with a grid-like architecture that will allow you to create sections in your page so that they all line up and stack appropriately. Become familiar with this first and then assign the right classes to each section. For example:
col-lg-12 is will create a section 100% wide.
col-lg-11 will create a section ~90% wide
...
col-lg-6 will create a section 50% wide
and so forth.
So to create the right placement of your divs or sections. add a row class to every section that is stackable.
If you are having two sections side-side inside this row, add a col-lg-6 to each and they will line up next to each other and on top of each on mobile.
Now, to the obvious problems that I saw right away.
Between your body tags, create a wrapper class div that will contain your page and define it's width.
Do not use so much positioning. Specially position:fixed. This is what makes things sticky and messy. You wan to make use of your margin, padding, floats, and displays properties to properly align things.
Give it a try before I hand you any code. I want to see your brain work first. Then we'll trouble shoot some more.

Twitter bootstrap topbar rtl

Tried to use twiter bootstrap
to create a top nav-bar in my master page.
http://jsfiddle.net/ZqCah/1/
I have some bugs and would appreciate some help:
1- I want to turn all my content to be rtl.
meaning My site will be the most right and register will be the most left.
2- The items are at different hights.
How can I align them to the middle of the bar?
3- I want to add an my site logo to the bar, as seen here
ask assitance for html page tabular layout
can it stick to the screen like the bar itself?
can it share the size with the bar itself?
Bootstrap now (3.3.5) supports RTL! all you have to do is replace all "left" with "right" inside bootstrap.css file (or better, directly on the "less" source files). The carousel maybe needs some tweaking, but 99% of the stuff works fine. Here's an example
If you want to create RTL website with twitter bootstrap you can use RTL version of it.
http://pyjamacoder.com/2012/02/01/twitter-bootstrap-v2-rtl-edition/
and
https://github.com/donaldducky/bootstrap-rtl
I create webpage with these
sushiant.com created with rtl version of bootstrap
You may want to explore the use of FLOAT and POSITION in your CSS. Try to separate each of your elements inside DIVs and experiment on FLOAT and POSITION properties.
For example, your number 1 question...you can put "my site" using:
<div style="float:left">my site</div>
<div style="float:right">register</div>
You can refer to this positioning tutorial http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/

How To Align Body Content so it Aligns w/Header & Footer

I am building a website but I started with a template and gutted it, changed a lot and got rid of the entire center section and now I have to start over with the body but whenever I try to insert the navigation menu, which is a javascript code that is inserted from another program I used to build it. Well, every time I try to insert the menu on the left side of the page, it falls outside the alignment of the header and footer, so instead of it being straight aligned with the header and footer on the left side, it is on the outside of where it should be. I'm absolutely retarded when it comes to this stuff so if someone could tell me the trick here and for building the content of the body. Just simple stuff like what html code and tags to use for making the boxes that you can insert things into, not image placeholders but boxes to input content like navigation menu or anything really?
HELP PLEASE.
here is the site.
Retairacket.thexdt.com
I also get an invalid URL error.
By the sounds of your problem though, you should be able to fix it relatively quickly and easily. I assume from the sounds of it that your header and footer are a fixed width and that there is likely a fixed width block within the body that is forcing the body to be wider when you add in the (most likely) fixed width nav as well. If that's the case, then you will just need to change the way you are controlling the widths to suit the new nav bar. So reduce the width of one block to accomodate the width of the new one, make sense?
Remember, I haven't actually seen what the problem is, so I'm just guessing from your question here based on the most likely sceanario.
I would also recommend learning the basics first. Designing a website isn't as everyone makes it out to be. As an extreme beginner without using WYSIWYG editors, coding HTML can be very complex. There aren't just "tags to use for making the boxes that you can insert things into."
Yes, there are <p> and <div> tags that will do what you want, but you need to understand what each tag does and when to use it.
I recommend the following sites:
w3schools
HTML Goodies
Webmonkey
Search Google for "HTML basics"
That URL isn't valid, apparently.
I also can't see your page, but I can see http://www.thexdt.com. Is the design similar to that page?
That page uses tables for the general structure. Is there is a large image or something bigger that the width of the external container?