Title: Theme Sidebar Manipulation: Necessary??
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# Theme Sidebar Manipulation: Necessary??

 *  [sabino106](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sabino106/)
 * (@sabino106)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-sidebar-manipulation-necessary/)
 * Hi All –
 * Please forgive me if the questions below are novice-level, but I set up my first
   site a couple of months ago, and I’m continuing to “chip away” and move forward.
   I’m pretty happy with the way things are progressing so far – has been kind of
   fun, really.
 * Prototype Site: [http://www.all-about-the-house.com](http://www.all-about-the-house.com)
 * I’m at the point now, though, where I feel I have a “critical mass” of original
   content, and I’m just starting to consider further manipulation of the sidebar–
   for additional aesthetics, advertisements and back-links as well. You can already
   see some of this on the site.
 * Here are my two essential questions:
 * Q1: It seems like most of the advertisements I see are optimized for 300 pixel
   width. (Some at 250 and smaller, some longer banners – but the 300 pixel number
   comes up a LOT.) My current sidebar seems to accommodate 270 pixel width. Would
   it be prudent for me to change to this to 300-pixel width before progressing 
   any further? Thoughts/Opinions? (I kind of like the current width, frankly.)
 * Q2: I have plenty of software development background, but it’s been about 10 
   years and my background is primarily in C, C++, Java and Ksh. Messing with CSS/
   HTML and PHP is fine, but having to do all three I’ve found thus far to be… well,
   a bit painfully cumbersome! 😉 If I wanted to change the sidebar width, I know
   I have to do so in style.css — but what specifically do I look for? I have a 
   LAMP environment so I can test off-line, of course. But would all changes be 
   in this one file – and can someone focus me on where to zero-in and the land 
   mines? It’s more than the sidebar, it seems, there’s a sidebar border as well.
   Plus, if I exceed some magic number, it seems to kill the main content window.
   What are the 2nd-grade basics here?
 * Any opinions, thoughts, insights most appreciated!
 * Mark

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