Hi Lee

Are you sure it is a contentpane and not just a div to hold the menu?
Difficult to say without a URL to look at. 

Have a look at the aspx page in the skin folder.
If the area is a pane that allows content to be added it will look something like this
< div id="SideBarPane" class="SideBarPane" runat="server" visible="false">

If there is no   runat="server" visible="false"  then this is not a content pane.

I suspect that in your skin you only will see code here to add the skin object for the menu.

My advice would be to add another LowerSideBar div under the menu to use this space rather than make the existing menu area into a content area as content and menus in the same div do not always play nice together.

Ian

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Mutate and Survive

Hi,

I am new to Dot Net Nuke and use Artisteer as well. You can't "turn on the sidebar". The sidebar in Dot Net Nuke is "sidebar1" or sidebar2". To make your website look like what you designed in Artisteer, you just install a module on whichever sidebar you want. Next go to the "settings" for the module. Once in "settings" scroll down to "Page Settings" almost to the bottom.
Next to the item "module container" choose from the list your skin you designed in Artisteer, but be sure and choose the skin "block". Now your website should start to look like what you designed in Artisteer.

For example, I just put in the search module and the account login module over on the right sidebar. After installing them I went into the settings and under page settings I chose the "timeshares247skin7 - block". This overrides the page skin settings which just give you the look of the skin - article.

I hope this helps!