You don’t have a background color for #sidebar in your css, so add this to #sidebar (choose your own color of course):
background: #003366;
BTW, .sidebar is a class (which you don’t have) and #sidebar is an id (what your theme uses).
Thanks, I tried the methods above but it would only show up on Mac browsers. Even in that case..it looked bad.
Faux Colums would probably be the best bet for me here.
However, when I tried the Faux Columns, the background image would not appear in IE.
I may have to experiment without the “sidebar widget” and see what happens then.
Grrrr, thanks for your input!
P.S. I hear ya on the class vs id. i meant to put #