[akhilp]

I may be wrong (I am also very new to customization) but download FireFox, then download Firebug (for Firefox).

Then hopefully you know CSS? If so you can use the Select tool in Firebug, click on the Categories and try to understand how the images for that side bar item is created.

To create the white space show in that link (shabby) you can try transprencies or just create the image/modify the image to match what you want.

PS the deviant link does not show the image...so once again look at the CSS on how the background image is created behind the word "Categories" mind u the image must be cut/split into sections to allow it to repeat in the X axis.

Or the code needs to be modified to have 1 image as the background for these sidebars...which will require chaning the PHP code?

Otherwise if you can split the image into 2 or 3 parts like how the existing CSS code is then u can simply replace the names of the images with your images and u will be done.

You will need to modify the main.css file.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Akhil P.