OK, you didn't need to post your CSS here, it's available on the page.
But I am confused. Perhaps I am misreading you here.
You have your bottom nav and your top nav. Then you have your "read more" which is not nav-it's just a link. Doesn't have your nav background.
When you set the rules for links for Column 3, you set the way the "read more" would work:
#column3 a, a:link{
          color: #33C;
          background-color: #FFF;
          background-repeat: no-repeat;
#column3 a:hover{
          color: #33C;
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So when you hover, it turns bold and maintains the same color. And the background for links in Column 3 is white, which is the background for column 3. Really not needed.
Additionally, the W3C Validator is finding problems with your page. Please fix those, then get back to us.

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</div>
</div>
<div id="footer"> <h6>Webpage designed by James S. Molina</h6></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("Vertical_menubar", {imgRight:"/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>
</div></body>
</html>

In regard to the files you currently have on your server, the links to your Spry menu files are still pointing to your local computer. This is caused when a site has not yet been defined in Site Manager, so DW is forced to link them locally.
To fix your page, just go into code view and remove the part of the link path that I have underlined and made BOLD.
<script src="file:///C|/Users/james/Documents/DREAMWEAVER SITES/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="file:///C|/Users/james/Documents/DREAMWEAVER SITES/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Spry Menu Bar - Different Background Image Wanted for menu items

Hi, I've looked everywhere for help with this and just haven't found any answers yet ...
I want my Dreamweaver CS5.5 menu to look like this design I've done in PhotoShop ...
It's a simple one level list with no sub-levels.
Everything is good, except I can only set one background image for all the menu items at this level.
I want the first, last, and all the middle, menu items to use different background images.
I have no idea where or how to insert the code to set a different background image for each individual menu item ...
I know I could use images set one on top another in a column with rollover image swop, but the spry menu opens the door for dynamic content so I'm keen to get it working.
Manchester city council has a great example of this style of menu design working at - http://www.manchester.gov.uk/
They've got funky indenting of the text as well.
~~~~~~
This is the code for my menu list ...
<div class="sidebar1">
    <ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarVertical">
      <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">News</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Groups</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Events</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
         <li><a href="#">Help</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>
This is how I set the background image (but I can only define one image) ...
I set the image background to "Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Top-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg" through ...
CSS Styles
SpryMenuBarVertical.css
ul.MenuBarVertical a
I then select the background category
and browse to the image file.
doing this changes my CSS code as follows ...
ul.MenuBarVertical li
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    position: relative;
    text-align: left;
    cursor: pointer;
    width: 170px;
    margin-top: 4px;
    margin-bottom: 4px;
    background: url(/Images/Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Top-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg);
ul.MenuBarVertical ul
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1020;
    cursor: default;
    width: 170px;
    left: -1000em;
    top: 0;
    margin-right: 0;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 95%;
    background: url(/Images/Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Top-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg);
ul.MenuBarVertical a
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
    color: #0000;
    text-decoration: none;
    font: normal 12px Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
    background: #EEE url(/Images/Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Top-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg);
~~~~~~
These are the three images I want to apply to the top middle and bottom menu items :
Top menu item background image - "Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Top-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg"
Middle menu items background image - "Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Mid-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg"
Bottom menu item background image - "Menu-Nav-Bar-Pic-Bot-v1-w170px-h32px.jpg"
~~~~~~
As I am unable to set the menu items individually, this is how the menu looks like on my website at the moment ...
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So near yet so far ! I'm hapy with the verdana font, the image size and spacing, but the background images I just can't set them right.
I'd really appreciate any help on this as I'm out of ideas.
Thank you.

The easiest way is to use pseudo elements.
To style the first and last menu items ifferently to the rest, merely add :first-child and :last-child respectivly as follows
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style>
ul.MenuBarVertical li:first-child a {
    background-color: red;
    color: white;
ul.MenuBarVertical li:last-child a {
    background-color: green;
    color: yellow;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarVertical">
<li><a href="#">Item 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 4</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item 5</a></li>
</ul>
<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>
</body>
</html>
In your case, in liue of the background colour, you would have an image.
Gramps

Using a background image for the buttons in spry menu

Hi All,
Going nuts here.
I'm using the vertical spry menu widget w DW CS3 and trying
to alter the css style sheet, so that I can use a li class for each
of the 14 links on this page, with an upstate and a hover state
only. (the focus, and hover while down will be the same as the
others, to keep it simple and not too distracting)
The page is here that I will be replacing the entire
background image in sidebar1 and sidebar2 with a custom spry menu
with the 14 li classes for 2 seperate menus:
http://audibleimagesav.com/blank_doc.html
Has anyone used a background image in place of just using
bkgrd colors and borders for the spry menu ?
I am aware of the attributes that the help docs suggest that
need to be altered as listed here :
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Spry/1.4/help.html?content=WS0BB04E11-1BE3-4a67-BC94-BE7DA 93A0159.html
I have been working on just an experimental page, that is now
hacked up, however if you want to see that it is here with only the
first list item coded:
http://audibleimagesav.com/site%20theme%20ideas/sprymenu_exp.html
The spry css menu widget for that page is here:
http://audibleimagesav.com/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css
So in short, has anyone done a bkgrd image for the main menu
(not submenu) in a spry widget?
Thanks in advance.
Art
Art Hansen
Web Design & Marketing
http://www.innova-techsolutions.com
321.750.3852 - Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA

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