Template modification to add content to side bar and more pages

How do I add content like links to Facebook and other sites I’m part of to the left black side bar where the date and category are?

That depends. Is the lower left sidebar widget-ready?

How can the date and category be moved from the left sidebar to the end of the post?

By editing the left sidebar template file (assuming that it is a separate template file) and moving the relevant code to the lower part of the Loop in index.php and any other archive templates.

how do I slide the top navigation lower

Edit style.css and change:

#header_menu {
background:url("img/header_menu_right.gif") no-repeat right top transparent;
display:inline;
float:right;
height:52px;
margin:20px 0 0;
}

to

#header_menu {
background:url("img/header_menu_right.gif") no-repeat right top transparent;
display:inline;
float:right;
height:52px;
margin:30px 0 0;
}

I;m not sure that you can add any more links to that menu though. It’s a fixed with design.

1) How do I check if the side bar is widget ready?

2) There is a template for the right sidebar, but not for the left one.
There are page templates with options for no comments, no date etc, but not for the main page- I have the other pages set without anything in the left side bar and I want to be able to remove the info in the left side bar from the first page and replace it with the badges. Where would I find the code?

3)I edited style.css from
#header_menu { float:right; display:inline; margin:20px 0 0 0; height:52px; background:url(img/header_menu_right.gif) no-repeat right top; }

to
#header_menu { float:right; display:inline; margin:30px 0 0 0; height:52px; background:url(img/header_menu_right.gif) no-repeat right top; }

and updated and absolutely nothing happened! What did I do wrong? Do I need to edit this in other files too?

If I slide the whole navigation bar under the name of the website, I’m hoping to fit a Links page and a Tutorials page- those should fit.