Time for action—changing your View layout
- To add/remove columns from your View, click on the link below the blocks area called Change my View layout.
- You will now see a screen inviting you to change the Number of Columns in your View. You can select between 1 and 5 columns. Punam changes her View to have 4 columns and clicks on Next:
- The final page asks you whether you would like to change your View to have Larger center columns or Equal widths. Punam decides she would like to stick to equally sized columns and clicks Change my View layout to finish:
- Punam's View looks like this with one extra column:
- Now that you have returned to the View layout screen, click on Next at the bottom to move on to the next stage.
What just happened?
You have just changed the layout of your View by adding an extra column and finished the layout step of View creation. We will see how you can return to this page later in order to re-edit your View.
How many columns you add to your View depends on the content you want to add—with there being a maximum of 5 to choose from. Punam has a clear idea about the kind of information she wants to put in each column. You may decide that you want your View to be simpler and only have two columns. This may be important if you are just showing images, for example, and you want them to be as big as possible.
We mentioned in the Time for action that you have a choice of having large center columns in your View. This is what Punam's View would have looked like with larger center columns:
Notice how the left-hand column is now squashed to be smaller than the two center ones. This could be useful, for example, if you would like the main information in the center with small images or web links in the side columns. We will be using this format later in the chapter in our example for making a multi-page View.
Now, let's move on to stage two of View creation.