I am working on a site for a friend overseas and she wanted to use this template. It's a great template BTW. I am not familiar with the new styles and have a couple of questions.
1. I changed the colour of the footer and the footer image but I seem to have lost the sides somehow. The footer only displays the width of the columns now. Where to go to correct this. When I followed the instructions and turned off the IP address in the footer it also added white space below the footer. Can I eliminate the white?
2. How to I reduce the white space above the top horizontal menu or remove the menu it entirely? I did see the instruction file on how to edit the text of the menu.
3. How do I turn off the slider on the main page and if I do will that cause display problems for the side boxes?

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TIA
Carol