Content background colour issue…

Hi All!

First of all I have to explain that I’m asking about this on behalf of someone else who doesn’t speak English well, but I’m illiterate as far as building websites is concerned so I’m not sure if i’m using the correct terms here but will try my best!

Basically they are building a website using WordPress/Tempera and they have a page colour of green but they want the content to have a pink background colour. When they only have one column below the header it’s fine and it works, but when they add a second column/bar to the side the content loses it’s pink background colour and reverts to the green page colour and also the footer goes missing… They explained that the side bar appears to be overlapping the main content and maybe that’s causing the issue?? And they can’t work out how to set the size of the side bar/column so it doesn’t overlap.

Can anybody explain what’s happening and offer any advice? Any help would be much appreciated 🙂

Thanks in advance,

San