Few changes

What theme are you using? Where did you download it from?

Which theme is your friend using?

He also is wanting to improve the look of the widget area, I’ve added a basic border and background colour but it doesn’t look right.

This is too vague and may not be within the scope of support provided by www.ads-software.com forums. Try a CSS-specific forum like https://CSSCreator.com .

Mimbo original

I don’t know where he downloaded it from. It’s a very plain basic theme

Sorry, www.ads-software.com forums are here to support the themes distributed on www.ads-software.com. From Google search results, it seems your theme is commercial and therefore is not supported by www.ads-software.com forums.

You ought to contact your theme’s vendors with queries regarding that theme.

Try asking on https://www.darrenhoyt.com/support/

That’s the theme dev’s own support forum.

Thanks Andrew, esmi =)