Yes I do need to spend some time into reading XHTML and CSS. At the current time, I wanted to be able to transfer my current layout into WP. I plan on implementing the layout into XHTML and CSS in the future. As for the sidebar background, I did not know that it was imaged based. Thanks for the pointer on that. The design is nice looking in Firefox but for some reason it looks distorted in IE, go figure. (emptymind.net) There are still some quirks that I need to address and other things need to be implemented also, but it will work for now.