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Thanx, Andrew! That fixed the problem. I saw that a background color was set in the Appearance/Background in the dashboard. I guess that was a carryover from another theme I was using, but the other site had the same background color set in it, as well, and it didn’t affect that one. Hmmm…

And thanx for the advice, alcymyth… I’m a relative newbie to WordPress and I am not a programmer. I will check it out!

Perfect! Thanks so much!

Thanks for your quick response, but I am fairly new to this… Here is what I copied into and changed in my new style.css to push the sidebars down:

/* Main sidebars */
#main .widget-area ul {
margin-left: 0;
padding: 490px 20px 0 0;

How should it read?

I have gone in and researched info on child themes and have created one successfully and made changes using the style.css in the child theme. The creation procedure had me create a new style.css and I have been pulling bits and pieces of the code from the parent theme, as I need to make changes. Why would I not just copy the entire style.css from the Twenty Ten theme into the child theme folder and make changes in my child theme, instead of dragging the pieces of code in one by one from the original theme style.css to the child theme style.css?

Thank you for your quick response. I am new to WordPress and am trying to develop. I did a search and found a fix right off the bat. Thanx, again!!

Figured it out…

I am a newbie and pretty much totally lost… I started using WordPress and took an online tutorial on developing a custom (or customized) theme and it led me through making changes to twentyten. Most changes made sense and some did not. I have very limited CSS and PHP experience. I used this newly created (adapted) theme to create a new website. I am concerned because I started reading posts and realized that if the twentyten theme ever got updated in a WordPress update (since it is a default theme), that it might change what I have done. Your suggestion about Child themes intrigued me and I went through the posts and understood some, but not all. Rather than use a Child theme, what I think I want to do is use what I have adapted and make a new theme, using all of the original and adapted files, without running the risk of future updates changing what I have done. Is this possible?