By keepingthelight on

I am a complete noob, so sorry if this is a dumb question!

I'm using AdaptiveTheme with Sky, but I could switch themes if necessary.

I want to make sidebar panels outside of the main area ie. not under the menu tabs and in a separate box. I'm displaying a background image and I'd like the sidebars not attached to the main area so the background image shows through (each sidebar having their own box). Nothing I've found has helped me with this, possibly because it's either super simple or completely impossible -- I'd be really grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks!

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kapildoshi commented

If you have not started working on project using Sky theme, I'll suggest you to use bartik theme as this theme comes with default left and right sidebars so you can put your separate menu in left or right sidebar.

If you want to continue with your current Sky theme then you need to alter your theme structure and create necessary sidebar region.
This you can do by editing "page.tpl.php" file inside your template folder. Please be careful while editing this file because if you miss out any bracket or semicolon, it can give you error. Page.tpl.php file defines your theme structure.

For your reference you can download Bartik theme and have a look at page.tpl.php file inside template and folder block structure how regions are defined, how to add our own region and you can delete unnecessary regions also. Attaching snapshot of Bartik theme block structure showing left and right sidebars.