I took the liberty of adding an edge to the right side of the whole page and it looks great! Let me know if you want to do this also and i'll tell you where it's at in the the .css
Hi Robert, I see you're using 1.7, I haven't got onto that yet. I like the extra space on the right, please tell everyone how you did that and someone will find it useful!
In response to your question about the grey background I'm pretty sure that's in the 'body' selector:
Check the background attribute, the #444 is the grey and the bg_body.gif is the darker grey stripe (repeating across the page). If you look at my store at http://store.flashdisk.com.au/ you'll see my flashdisk theme doing some things with this.
I am new and hoping to do the same large banner. Could you share if you had to change anything else than what is related in the first page of this thread?
The easiest way to figure all of this out is to use the firefox plug-in firebug. With this tool you can hover over anything on a site and it will tell you all the info you need like the div and class names and even show you the css styles used for it. It is a must have tool in my opinion for any developer.
So to see the exact styles i used just install the plug-in and visit my site http://commercialbargains.com and use the tool to see the changes i did to each little thing.