How to increase width of sidebar?

I can see that it changed. And if you look at it with my glasses (brand new, can see everything, LOL) you would see, too.
The width of the divs did change. Period. Don’t argue.
What didn’t change: the width of the background image that is providing the green bg colour for your sidebar. And no, that will not change by modifying the CSS file. You need a new image.

no argument :). you rock. thanks

OK, not to draw this out, but I am so confused. As you can see below, my background draws from an image called container.gif. I found this image, edited it to extend the green portion of the right side, uploaded it over the old file by the same name. and the website looks the SAME! I don’t know how that’s even possible at all!

I’ve almost given up on this project….

#main {
width: 719px;
margin: 0 auto;
background:#fff url(images/container.gif) right repeat-y;
border: 2px solid #ccc;

#content {
float: left;
width: 499px;
padding: 20px 15px;
}

#sidebar {
float: right;
width: 200px;
padding: 20px 5px;
}

No need to repost the same css code every time. Just change it. And if you really succeeded to edit that image, it should have worked.

Sometimes a Ctrl+F5 helps…

just to test, i completely deleted the container.gif file from my ftp server, and the website looks exactly the same. I’ve refreshed it several times and emptied the cache. I’m using cyerduck and godaddy if that means anything….

Sometimes a Ctrl+F5 helps… – or whatever is the correspondent on a Mac for hard refresh.

got it. cheers. thanks for hanging in there with a novice…