how do i remove content from magento sidebar

I did not found a way to remove existing content from magento sidebar and to add m开发者_JAVA百科y own content.

How do I do this?

Please help

You will need to change the "page.xml" (located in "app/design/frontend/<your_package_name>/<your_theme_name>/layout/" folder) to have only "1column.phtml" template, instead of other possible templates (like "2columns-left.phtml", "2columns-right.phtml", "3columns.phtml").

Hope it helps.

Have a look at: Intro to Layouts for an introduction, and then here for a specific example.

Also look at the site of alanstorm, http://alanstorm.com/category/magento , he got very useful tutorials. At the beginning, magento is quite complicated.