you have to change the background colour of the element that contains the text - look for #links (i think) is the styles css file

marc

Hi, I'm using the standard MT template.  I'd like to change the right column to have a uniform royal blue background.  When I attempted to do this in the index template by adjusting the backgound color variables on the text, it came out banded.  Of course, wherever there was no text, there was no color change.  What variable should I be using to change the background color of the entire right column?  
Elliot

thanks.  works great.