<!-- begin sidebar -->
  <div id="menu">
  
  <ul>
          <?php wp_list_pages(); ?>
          <?php get_links_list(); ?>
   <li id="categories"><?php _e('Categories:'); ?>
          <ul>
          <?php wp_list_cats(); ?>
          </ul>
   </li>
   <li id="search">
     <label for="s"><?php _e('Search:'); ?></label>        
     <form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo $\_SERVER[\text{'}PHP\_SELF\text{'}];\; ?>">$<div>
                  <input type="text" name="s" id="s" size="15" /><br />
                  <input type="submit" value="<?php _e('Search'); ?>" />
          </div>
          </form>
   </li>
   <li id="archives"><?php _e('Archives:'); ?>
           <ul>
           <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
           </ul>
   </li>
   <li id="meta"><?php _e('Meta:'); ?>
           <ul>
                  <?php wp_register(); ?>
                  <li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
                  <li><a href="feed:<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate this site using RSS'); ?>"><?php _e('<abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr>'); ?></a></li>
                  <li><a href="feed:<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('The latest comments to all posts in RSS'); ?>"><?php _e('Comments <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr>'); ?></a></li>
                  <li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="<?php _e('This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional'); ?>"><?php _e('Valid <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr>'); ?></a></li>
                  <li><a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/"><abbr title="XHTML Friends Network">XFN</abbr></a></li>
                  <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="<?php _e('Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.'); ?>"><abbr title="WordPress">WP</abbr></a></li>
                  <?php wp_meta(); ?>
          </ul>
   </li>
  
  </ul>
  
  </div>
  <!-- end sidebar -->