Hey I have a customized theme at www.publicrecordsguy.com and when I created the About page, it makes it look like a post. I want to get rid of the date and have the sidebar disappear as the default, but I can't figure out how to tweak it. I'm read WP for Dummies, and I'm still confused. Any guru's here willing to help me out so that I can create a nice about page?
Did you create a page template (page.php) in your theme directory? If you didn't then create one. If you did then look for the "get_sidebar" call and remove it.
yeah I have one, and i figured out how to remove the sidebar, but as it turns out I think I want to have a separate sidebar that is just adsense. I'm trying to figure out how to make a different header and sidebar for that page. Any suggestions?
You mean you want a specific template for the about page or a different sidebar for all pages? WP themes can easily handle either. I suggest poking around the WP documentation some more. Also you'll get better responses on the WP forums than here.