Just Not Getting It

what code are you trying to put in there?

At the moment I tried using the code for sidebar from the default theme

<div id=”sidebar”>

• <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/searchform.php’); ?>
• <?php /* If this is a 404 page */ if (is_404()) { ?>
  <?php /* If this is a category archive */ } elseif (is_category()) { ?>
  You are currently browsing the archives for the <?php single_cat_title(”); ?> category.

  <?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
  You are currently browsing the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives
  for the day <?php the_time(‘l, F jS, Y’); ?>.

  <?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
  You are currently browsing the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives
  for <?php the_time(‘F, Y’); ?>.

  <?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_year()) { ?>
  You are currently browsing the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives
  for the year <?php the_time(‘Y’); ?>.

  <?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_search()) { ?>
  You have searched the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives
  for ‘<?php echo wp_specialchars($s); ?>’. If you are unable to find anything in these search results, you can try one of these links.

  <?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (isset($_GET[‘paged’]) && !empty($_GET[‘paged’])) { ?>
  You are currently browsing the “><?php echo bloginfo(‘name’); ?> weblog archives.

  <?php } ?>

<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=<h2>Pages</h2>’ ); ?>

• <h2>Archives</h2>

<?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?>

• <h2>Categories</h2>

<?php wp_list_cats(‘sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0’); ?>

<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>
<?php get_links_list(); ?>

• <h2>Meta</h2>

<?php wp_register(); ?>
• <?php wp_loginout(); ?>
• Valid XHTML
• XFN
• WordPress

<?php wp_meta(); ?>

<?php } ?>

</div>

Thats the full code that I tried to get to work.

well I wish I could help you with figuring out exactly what is wrong.

When i get those parse errors I try and trouble shoot by just adding a few sections of the code at a time.
Try first just doing the div sidebar tag with just a basic a href link inbetween the div tags.
that way you can see if its the div id tag or something else.

hope that helps…