How do I make my left side bar "sticky"?

Question

Hey, I appreciate this community and the help I've recieved from you all so far, but I'm going to have to ask for a little more.
I create all my own images in CS5.
I was trying to create a sticky left sidebar with no margin and make it 100 pixels wide. I made an image for it and it seems to work, the only problem is I can't make it sticky.
Also the side bar needs to have 5 icons which will link you to the 5 web pages of my website for which I created images. I have 5 more created images for the icons as i want them to glow when they are scrolled over and a word to pop up if that's possible.
ex. blue little house icon. (scrolled over) glowing blue little house icon with the word 'home' appearing to it's right.
Thanks in advance for any advice/help you all offer to me.

Answer 1

I'd love to help!
When you say "sticky" do you mean fixed positioning?
Here is an example of fixed positioning:
http://davidwalsh.name/demo/css-fixed-position.php
The CSS rule for that would be:
#myid {
     height: 300px;
     width: 100px
     position: fixed;
You can use floats to make it stick to the left or right side!
#myid {
     height: 300px;
     width: 100px
     position: fixed;
     float: right;
To add your background image, you'll need another rule for that, and a path to the directory where you have your image saved:
#myid {
     height: 300px;
     width: 100px;
     position: fixed;
     float: right;
     background-image: url(site/images/mybackground.png);
You will need to create an HTML div container for these rules:
     <div id="myid"></div>
Within this container, you will place your icons with background images. For this, you will need to create new ids.
You'll repeat the previous steps in order to get the icon containers how you'd like them, instead of divs I suggest you use and <a id="icon1" href=""></a> tag so that they will be links. Since they are housed within the myid div, they will not need to be positioned fixed, and they will need their own set of rules.
Let me know if you need anymore help!
Julia