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I'm quite happy with Sigplus, but have a problem: how to align it with my own css.
I need one column with images left of the text, and one to the right of the text. By default, I can either align the plugin left or right. But not both at the same time. It's either or. That goes for just about any other similar gallery plugin.

Is there any way to this?

I am afraid this question has little to do with sigplus per se. It must be my fault but I have difficulty imagining how to align anything both to the left and the right at the same time; any object can be anchored to the left or to the right of a container element, or perhaps to some position in between, but definitely not both left and right. You might also want to look into how the CSS properties float and clear work, in case you want one element left-aligned and another element right-aligned in the vicinity of each other (approximately the same "line"). You might also want to look into absolute positioning in CSS.

It's quite easy to do with css. You create a left column or a float left element, and likewise a right column or a float right element. My problem is that this doesn't seem to work in sigplus. It ignores any other css than its own. {gallery} isn't valid css, so I can't create something like {gallery class="left_float"}.

I hope others have a solution for this.

I am sure you have already considered this but in case not, take into account that sigplus CSS rules are marked as !important, giving these rules much higher precedence than normal rules: The reason for high precedence is because many templates have rules of their own that would interfere with sigplus (e.g. formatting rules for lists, spacing, etc.), and often these rules have an article or page section identifier in them, e.g. elevating rule precedence. Since most sigplus rules are not specific to a particular gallery and sigplus cannot know in advance what #myid the template will employ, the only way to enforce precedence over template rules is to use !important. The downside is that custom rules you introduce must not only have relatively higher precedence but also employ !important to be considered.

In addition, sigplus galleries are always annotated with the class and sigplus galleries that are left-aligned and float have You might want to attach additional CSS content to these rules if you are intent on changing their appearance. Moreover, the attribute id lets you assign a unique identifier to the gallery, again easing reference to a particular one. True, sigplus 1.3.x/1.4.x does not support the attribute class in the activation tag.