CSS help

Hi all. I’m Dave, and relatively new to using WordPress. Would someone please help me with a problem with a style sheet? My blog is at http://bezaires.com. Notice that the background of the sidebar is red at the top (as i specified in the CSS file), but the unused bottom portion of the sidebar area is color #eeeeee. Can you please tell me how to get the entire sidebar column to be the red color? (I’ve included a copy of the CSS file below).

Also, I am not seeing any spacing between paragraphs in the posts. Can you please tell me how to add some?

Thanks,

Dave

/*
Theme Name: Ramblings
Theme URI:
Description: A simple two column fluid width theme. Right sidebar supports widgets. Tags and gravatars supported. Valid XHTML and CSS.
Version: 0.5
Author: Dave Bezaire
Author URI: http://bezaires.com
Tags: blue, light, two-columns, flexible-width, right-sidebar, threaded-comments
Derived from: Fluid-Blue located at http://srinig.com/wordpress/themes/fluid-blue/
The CSS, XHTML and design is released under GPL:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php
*/

body {
margin:0;
color:#333333;
font-size: 62.5%; /* Resets 1em to 10px */
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
text-align:center;
}

a {
color:#928844;
text-decoration:none;
}

a:hover {
text-decoration:underline;
}

h1, h1 a, h2, h2 a, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
margin-bottom:0;
color:#A0590A;
text-align:left;
}

h1 {font-size:2.6em;}
h2 {font-size:2em;}
h3 {font-size:1.6em;}
h4 {font-size:1.2em;}
h5 {font-size:1em;}
h6 {font-size:0.8em;}

img {
border:0;
}

input {
font-size:1.2em;
}

input[type=text], textarea{
border:1px inset #aaa;
}

input[type=submit] {
border:1px outset #aaa;
}

textarea {
font-size:12px;
}

pre {
font-size:12px;
overflow:auto;
}

code {
font-size:12px;
color:#111;
}

/* Layout */
#page {
min-width:760px;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:left;
}

#wrapper {
margin:0 5%;
padding-right:230px;
}

#content{
float:left;
width:96%;
border-right:230px solid #eee;
margin-right:-230px;
padding:20px 4% 20px 0;
}

#sidebar{
float:left;
width:190px;
margin:0 -230px 0 0;
padding:20px;
}

#footer {
clear:both;
padding:10px;
border-top:0.2em solid #555;
}

/* Header */

#header {
margin:0;
padding:2em 0;
height:4.8em;
border-top:0.2em solid #555;
}

#headertitle {
float:left;
position:absolute;
top:2.4em;
left:5%;
}
#headertitle h1 {
margin:0;
}
#headertitle h1 a {
color:9D5609;
}
#headertitle h1 a:hover {
text-decoration:none;
}

#headertitle p {
margin:0;
color:9D5609;
font-size:1.1em;
}

.search {
float:right;
padding:1.5em 5% 0 0;
}
.search form {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
.search input {
display:inline;
width:218px;
border:1px solid #555;
margin:0;
padding:0.2em 5px;
color:#333333;
font-size:1.1em;
}

/* Top navigation */
#navbar {
border-top:0.1em solid #555;
border-bottom:0.1em solid #555;
height: 2.3em;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px ;
}

#nav {
margin:0 5%;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
}

#nav ul {
padding:0.1em 0 0 0;
margin:0;
list-style: none;
}

#nav a {
color:#EEEFBA;
display: block;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 0.5em;
}

#nav a:hover {
color: #fff;
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 0.5em;
}

#nav li {
float: left;
margin: 0;
text-transform:uppercase;
padding: 0 2em 0 0;
}

#nav li li {
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 14em;
}

#nav li li a, #nav li li a:link, #nav li li a:visited {
color: #c6c8c9;;
width: 14em;
float: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0.5em ;
border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;
}

#nav li li a:hover, #nav li li a:active {
color: #fff;
}

#nav li ul {
position: absolute;
width: 10em;
left: -999em;
}

#nav li:hover ul {
left: auto;
display: block;
}

#nav li:hover ul, #nav li.sfhover ul {
left: auto;
}

/* Sidebar */

#sidebar ul {
padding:0;
margin:0;
list-style: none;
font-size:1.1em;
}
#sidebar ul ul {
font-size:1em;
}
#sidebar ul li {
margin:0 0 2em 0;
}
#sidebar ul ul {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#sidebar li li {
margin:0.1em 0;
}
#sidebar li li li {
padding-left:10px;
}
#sidebar ul h2 {
margin:0;
padding:0;
color:#9D5609;
font-size:1.2em;
text-transform:uppercase;
}

/* Footer */
#footer {
text-align:center;
font-size:1em;
color:#333333;
}

#footer a {
/* color:#A0590A; */
color:#EEEFBA;
font-weight: bold;
}

/* Post */
.post {
margin:0 0 4em 0;
clear:both;
}

.post p, .post ol li, .post ul li{
margin-top:0;
font-size:1.2em;
line-height:1.5em;
text-align:justify;
}
.post li li {
font-size:1em;
}
.post blockquote {
padding:0 0 0 2em;
border-left:0.4em solid #ccc;
font-size:0.9em;
}
.post blockquote blockquote {
margin-left:0;
font-size:1em;
}

.postentry a {
border-bottom:1px solid #ddd;
}
.postentry a:hover {
border-bottom:1px solid #258;
text-decoration:none;
}

.postmetadata {
clear:both;
margin:1em 0;
font-size:1.1em;
color:#727272;
text-align:justify;
}

div.navigation {
font-size:1.1em;
}

.postentry table {
border-width:0 1px 1px 0;
border-style:solid;
border-color:#ccc;
font-size:0.9em;
}

.postentry table tr td {
padding:5px 10px;
border-width:1px 0 0 1px;
border-style:solid;
border-color:#ccc;
}

.postentry table tr th {
border-width:1px 0 0 1px;
border-style:solid;
border-color:#ccc;
padding:5px 10px;
color:#666;
font-weight:bold;
text-transform:uppercase;
text-align:center;
}

/* Comments */

#comments {
font-size:1.4em;
}

.commentlist {
margin:20px 0;
padding:0;
border-width:0 0.1em 0.1em 0;
border-color:#eee;
border-style:solid;
}

.commentlist li {
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
border-width:0.1em 0 0 0.1em;
border-color:#eee;
border-style:solid;
}

li.comment div, li.pingback div {
padding:20px;
overflow:auto;
}

li.comment div div, li.pingback div div {
padding:0;
overflow:visible;
}

ul.children li {
list-style:none;
}

img.avatar {
float:right;
border:1px solid #eee;
padding:2px;
margin:0;
}

.comment-meta, .reply {
margin:0;
padding:0;
font-size:0.8em;
}

.comment-author cite {
font-style:normal;
font-weight:bold;
font-size:1.2em;
}

textarea#comment {
width:100%;
}

#comments div.navigation {
font-size:0.9em;
}

/* Comment ends */

/* Calendar */
#wp-calendar caption {
text-transform:uppercase;
font-weight:bold;
color:#aaa;
text-align:left;
}
#wp-calendar thead th {
font-weight:normal;
color:#27a;
text-align:center;
}
#wp-calendar tbody td {
text-align:center;
}
#wp-calendar tbody td a {
font-weight:bold;
}
#wp-calendar tbody td.pad {
border:none;
}
/* Calendar ends */

abbr {
cursor:help;
border-bottom: 0.1em dotted;
}

.aligncenter, div.aligncenter {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

.alignleft {
float: left;
margin: 5px 5px 5px 0;
}

.alignright {
float: right;
margin: 5px 0 5px 5px;
}

.wp-caption {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
text-align: center;
padding-top: 4px;
margin: 10px;
}

.wp-caption img {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0 none;
}

.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 17px;
padding: 0 4px 5px;
margin: 0;
}

.moretext {
font-size: .76em;
font-style: italic;
font-variant: small-caps;
}

/* Background Colors */
/* body { background:magenta; } */ /* #dddd99 */
/* #content { background:red; } */ /* #dddd99 */
/* #page { background:blue; } */ /* #e9ebaa */
/* #wrapper { background:yellow; } */ /* #e9ebaa Don’t use */
/* #navbar { background:green; } */ /* #D9CB80 */
/* #footer { background:teal; } */ /* #D9CB80 */
#sidebar { background:darkred; } /* #e9ebaa */
/* #header { background:springgreen; } */ /* #e9ebaa */
.wp-caption { background:#e9ebaa; }
.postentry table tr th { background:#f4f4f4; }
code { background:#f8f8f8; }
.commentlist li.even { background:#fafafa; }
.commentlist li.odd { background:#f6f6f6; }
img.avatar { background:#fff; }
input[type=text], textarea { background:#D9CB80; }
input[type=submit] { background:#D9CB80; }
.search input { background:#D9CB80; }
#nav a:hover { background:#D9B568; }
#nav li li a, #nav li li a:link, #nav li li a:visited { background:#165279; }
#nav li li a:hover, #nav li li a:active { background:#237ab2; }
/* #nav ul { background:transparent; } */