Themes

Luke,

Why would you want to do that? It would create a very strange layout.
It would be easier to do in Moodle 2.0 as there is more flexibility with page layout.
I'm not too sure if it is possible in Moodle 1.9, at least, not without a lot of recoding.
However, there is nothing stopping you adding an area above the main layout table.
Just add this at the end of your header in header.html before the main content starts.
<div id="table-top">
<table class="tabletop">
<tr>
<td>
Add your contents here...
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

Then you will just need to add #tabletop and .tabletop to your CSS file and add some css code to make it look and work as you want it to...something like this...

div#tabletop {margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 100%; height: auto;}
table.tabletop {width: 98%; padding: 0 1%; margin: 0 }
Hope this helps?

Mary

With a standard theme the following css might do the trick:

(all side blocks are placed in the right column!)

#middle-column,#right-column{display:table-row;}
#right-column div{vertical-align:top;}
div.sideblock,.skip-block-to{display:inline-block;}
div.sideblock{width:200px;}

The css basically renders the middle and right columns as table rows so you have in effect one column with two rows such that the middle column becomes the first row and right column the second row. Then the blocks are rendered inline-block which means multi-lines. The blocks should be assigned a fixed width (200 in the example above). Assigning also fixed height would make the display of the blocks tidier (try and you'll see what I mean). hth