Can someone please tell me....

[ezdays]

Yes, "se square left" does appear to have these dark blue side bars. In fact, it is really a dark blue background. When we started Big Blue, we wanted to mimic what we had on the original Gauge forum and we went with the white text on a blue background. We were working with a different forum style now, and had to make due with what we were given, but Path was able to match the color we used to have. But there were some here that had problems with this combination, saying that it was hard to read for them, so we tried to accommodate them by adding a few different schemes. Our, "The Gauge dark" took a lot of work on Path's part so we went a bit easier on him and he simply added the necessary inserts and overlays to personalize several already available styles for phpBB. "se square left" is somewhat vertical, while the other styles are more horizontal. I prefer the original Gauge Dark myself, try it or another style if you would prefer to fill the screen from side to side.