I have always had a bit of a blind spot when it comes to CSS positioning we are lucky to have Sinead our very own CSS ninja for whom CSS positioning holds no terror, but sometimes I feel the need to stand on my own two feet when helping to build clients' websites to Shane & Sinead's exacting designs.

Q: How can you easily specify an alternative page template to be used when displaying a node of a particular content type in Drupal 6?

A: Use the Node Template module, supply an alternative page template file in your target theme folder and configure your content type to use this new template.

I didn't realise that in drupal 6, with a little bit of trickery you can add a template region to a node template and not just the page template - it makes sense really and means that you can easily place blocks into nodes once you have added a region or 2. In some cases this might help you build a more block centric version of your target web design in drupal. Here's an article that shows how it's done:

http://www.kirkdesigns.co.uk/drupal-6-how-embed-region-node

Block on!