Widget Sidebar Trouble

Hi,

I’m currently running a the simple cms wordpress theme – it doesn’t have a sidebar or functions file.

I have now created a sidebar file which works fine (statically). I am now wanting to widgetize my them and therefore have created a functions file.

My functions file is:

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar();
?>

and my sidebar is:

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
        || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>

I now have two problems – firstly the widgets are now available to me but don’t actually show in the sidebar and the 2nd is it stops everything below the sidebar rendering i.e. the footer etc.

Am I doing something wrong here? I’d ideally like to put a contact form in the sidebar.