Custom theme project

[finid]

So I'm about to embark on a custom theme design adventure.

Here's the main objective: To have a sidebar on every page. I know somebody is sick of hearing about a sidebar, but...
To make that happen, there'll be a sidebar.tpl in the themes folder, just like header.tpl (and footer.tpl), and it will be called from every page that needs a sidebar. Is that the proper way to go about it in Bootstrap? I'm new to Bootstrap, so your input on how to go about this the right way is welcome.

[psychobunny]

That's only if you're planning on that sidebar being constant across all pages?

If that's the case your best bet and most easiest route would be:

header.tpl:

// all usual header code
<div class="col-xs-9">

footer.tpl:

</div>
<div class="col-xs-3">
  //sidebar content
</div>
// all usual footer code

this is the way to go if you don't want to dive too much into the code (ex. attempting to require a sidebar.tpl into the template)

[finid]

@psychobunny

It gets messy when you try to hack it this way. I was attempting to remove the sidebar code from home.tpl, then copy it to <div class="col-xs-3">//sidebar content</div> infooter.tpl, but it does not work very well. The best approach would be to require a sidebar.tpl.