After checking it out with UComm, I've been trying to reproduce the rather nice two-column text boxes available as (I assume) a widget in the new template on the existing History site, for JW and LM, who want to put some on the home page. I have them working OK, but I'm not sure the department are going to want to use them. Took a bit of hacking to make them size correctly, and in the context of the old template they don't look as nice as in the new.