CCS to WordPress Road Bumps

Hey guys its been a long time.

I’m currently re-doing one of my websites – getting rid of tables and going 100% CSS instead. So far its been great. Here’s how it looks like:

* Original – https://www.musicworx.org
* CSS (table free) – https://www.musicworx.org/csstrial.html

With that out of the way I am moving on to converting the design to a WordPress theme so I can host a blog on the site using the same look and feel as the rest of the site. Here’s how it has become tricky.

* Converted to WP – https://www.musicworx.org/blog

If you see I’m getting close. But I am running into several problems.

1.) I can’t get my wraps to work like they are supposed to. I created a wrap to contain the main content and the sidebar. I need this in order to creat a border on both the left and right side. (already using content border for dotted line on left – CSS won’t allow you to use more than one style at the same time).
2.) Because the wrap won’t work I can’t hide the length of the sidebar – to make both the content window and the sidebar look like they have the same length. To do this on the CSS page I just set the wrap bg color to the same color as the sidebar. But wrap not working.
3.) The clear:both tag on the footer isn’t working and right now its popping up in my content window.

Can anybody help? I’d appreciate it much.

Cheers.
Michael