Now we are starting off with the basic sidebar, which looks like this...
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Now onto the background options. There are 4 basic backgrounds to use.
1. plain color
2. background image
3. grad color
4. transparency
I will explain all of these starting with #1.

PLAIN COLOR
To add a color background just add bgcolor=??? in the <td> tag. So this is what it would look like...
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BACKGROUND IMAGE To put a background image on your sidebar, put background="http://address of image" in the <table> tag. This is what it will look like...
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GRADCOLOR
For gradcolor add bgcolor=??? and gradcolor=??? in the <td> tag. For more effect add gradangle=#. This is what it looks like...
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TRANSPARENCY
For transparency, place bgcolor=??? and transparency=# in the <td> tag. I put a background on this page so you can see the effect...
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I really like the moving background effect with the transparency. To do this, add xspeed=#and yspeed=# in the <body background> tag after the address of the image.

That's about it for the backgrounds. Click below to add the finishing touch to your sidebar.

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