My sidebar is at bottom of screen. Why?

I think it has to do with the way i’ve been stuffing around with the style.css in the child theme.
I found a you tube video for kentucky classrooms and it explained ‘Basic editing of the wordpress twentyten theme’ and then i found another ‘http://zeaks.org/twenty-ten-child-theme-how-to/’
that seems to be quite good as well. I can move the sidebar from side to side now but it never moves it up to top.

I have the following in my child theme’s style.css and i think it may be here that i need to alter to get it to move sidebar to top?

@import url(“../twentyten/style.css”);
#branding img {
border-top: none;
border-bottom: none;
}

#header {
padding: 0 0 0;
}

#primary,#secondary {
float: right;
width: 280px;
}

if i change the #primary,#secondary {

to

#primary, #secondary {
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
width: 220px;
margin-left: 10px;
}
#secondary {
clear: left;
}

and below that to

#container {
float: right;
margin: 0 -250px 0 0;
width: 940px;
}
#content {
overflow:hidden;
}

it does move the blogroll sidebar to left, but not up

i’ve left my site that way if you want to have a look.
i think i may be better to have a basic twentyten wordpress install again and start from scratch – is that posible? and if so how do i go about it?
i signed up for a free two week with woo themes and got their canvas theme, but i would prefer a free theme – it seems to be ok with the sidebar though.
Do you think it’s worth paying for one ? either this one, or i think i’ve seen DIY thesis a bit – i think from what ive seen/experienced that wordpress isn’t that easy. Maybe it’s a steep learning curve whichever theme is chosen, but its really frustrating not having doco that make sense so when u try something and it doesn’t work it breaks something else and it’s hard to know how to put it back…

i removed the child theme dir (and all files in there) then i deleted twentyten and am using twentyeleven. Ill see if i can do what i want with that one – thnks – ill just keep trying to understand what each of the files do and where they should go.

I followed the instructions on http://www.transformationpowertools.com/wordpress/twenty-eleven-sidebar-on-single-posts-and-pages

this was suggested in anothert codex forum support solution that i found.

and now the sidebars from the Main sidebars are there – BUT they’re still at the bottom (yes, on the side, but not at the top as i would have expeted) of the page – NOT the side – in mozilla firefox
But it looks really weird in IE.

I really dont know wht im doing so wrong – i thought it would work out of the box, without having to do all this coding- which i really dont understand anyway – this is soooo frustrating – does anyone have any ideas of a good theme that i could try ? that dont have these problems.

took out the functions.php of the above suggestions and now i can get into dashboard – and the sidebars of ‘Main sidebars’ is still showing – yay – but as i mentioned before they’re showing at bottom of the pages. is my understanding correct that they should be on the side of the screen, and at the top?

janio,

hope this helps you – what i did was installed XAMMP and am using the twentyeleven theme again and it’s working fine ie sidebar in side and NOT bottom – i have it working locally and i am planning on moving all the files over to website but just not yet.