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On PC laptop running XP Home edition SP3 I still don't get your error or scroll bar in any of the IE browsers. Try Eric's solution.

@Wickham Hi "old" man, I really did think you were joking, I'm not that far up the hill but no spring chicken either !! I started changing the html and the floats too and then thought that maybe he should just learn by trial and error, rather than hand it to him on a plate.

I'm running XP on a Mac and I cannot see your problem in IE7 or IE8, it even looks good in IE6, perfectly positioned. I will look a little later on my PC laptop, to see if I can see the problem.

Change to this .footer-links p { [color=red]margin:0;[/color] padding-top:8px; } You have not done a CSS reset so certain elements have inherent margins and padding. It helps a lot to install Firebug for Firefox, with it you can visually see the margins and padding of different elements just by running the cursor over the page.

It is not a screen resolution issue, I tested your site in 3 different browsers Safari, Firefox and Opera, on a Mac laptop at 1440 x 900 and the photo gallery image shows in a different position in each. Same thing on a PC at 1440 x 900 in IE 7 and 8, Firefox and Chrome, none of the images showed in the same place either. Clean up your code first as Andrea suggested. Also as she said your images need to be all the same size.

@Wickham 67, you have to be joking.... @DaddyAlfie Congrats on your sharp mind...and horny helmet!

Cool, let's hope we get some more posters, it'a been kind of quiet around here.

You need to save your document as an .html document otherwise the browsers cannot read it. Make sure when you save it, that it only saves as index.html not index.html.txt

I could not find your background image in the css in Firebug?

As I already said in another thread, design-wise there is way too much going on in this website and your drop down "Accessories" menu is still hiding under the Flash.

I totally agree with Ben's comment, I found the same thing. and Here again I agree, there are also different branches of graphic design and different essential software that need to be mastered. It really all depends on your personal goals.

If you have your own site you can put the site on there in a separate folder, or else you could put a test folder on the clients site, if you have access. Then you just need to give us the exact address.

Maybe Newseed can answer this, he's in Florida. But hey it's a big state and an even bigger country...! Learning at any stage in life is always beneficial, it totally depends on what you want to do with your life. If you want to get a steady job, then a college degree is almost essential nowadays. However, if you are more of an entrepreneur, then self taught is fine, and keep on learning. $57,000 is a lot of money to invest if you don't know what your goals and job offerings that will result from the degree will be. Do a little more research into what sort of jobs you can get with this degree, or do the reverse and choose the job you would like to have and see what most of the educational requirements are. You could also see a career advisor at a community college.

Can you provide a link to this page? It is much easier to troubleshoot. In any case, css is case sensitive, so you need to be careful how you name your div in the html. The css is looking for #promo and will ignore #Promo, so the browser will revert back to default. Once you change the html to #promo you may have to position it in some way, but as I cannot see the images I have no idea where it is supposed to be.

@Wickham and Jim Thanks for the insight, that's exactly how I code too. I have been helping out on another forum, the article I read was from one of the mods, and I noticed that most of the CSS questions are problems due to the relative positioning and of course lack of validation.

I just read an article where the author states I was rather surprised that he didn't mentioned floats as I regularly use static position (undeclared) and floats and very rarely the others. I usually don't have major problems with positioning, except for the usual IE bugs, and I just wondered what sort of positioning you guys use on a regular basis? Is there a prefered method or is it just a matter of personal choice?

@Andrea, sorry to hear about your problems, it sounds like you need to change hosts. @Eric, I thought you were a Mac user?

You will need to check out different hosting services to see which plan will suit your purposes best. There are differences in prices depending on the space, the size of transfer, number of databases and email accounts. However you can usually start out small and upgrade as the need arises.

The doctype being used is HTML 4.01 not XHTML, so no need for the forward slash. @Revp You should also use a body tag in your html file, placed as per below All the content of the document......

You add margin-right to the ul tag to move the whole thing nearer to the logo, it will still have room to expand with the zoom.

By the way you can download free web templates, however whether you pay for them or not, to modify them you need to know some coding. If you do not want to modify the design in any way, you will still need to know how and where to place your text and images. Some designers will do this on their templates for a fee.

Do the following: #navigation { padding-bottom:20px; } #navigation ul { float:right; font-family:Verdana,helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:12px; } #navigation li { float:left; list-style-type:none; padding:0 7px; }

Use Wordpress and he can choose his template.

You should absolutely add a Doctype to your page or you will run into trouble in some browsers. Here we recommend HTML 4 see this article http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html

Your client is quite right, the site should load in all versions of 6 to 8 of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera on both PC and Mac. Your whole first page takes forever to load whichever browser I look at, I didn't even get the header to show after more than 20 seconds in Firefox on a fast connection, much too long. I think you have way too much going on in that first index page. I know clients often push to have everything they have on the first page, but you really can't see the forest for the trees. You have 7 different flash and javascript slideshows plus a drop down menu going on at the same time. All these images are being preloaded, plus you are using tables which adds extra mark up to your file, which is why the whole site takes time to appear. Then there is so much movement going on that there is nothing to focus on, and to see all that movement you have to scroll down, the whole thing becomes very confusing. In design less is often more. I would suggest having your drop down menu and just one Flash slideshow which would highlight the different articles in the menu and maybe your celebs, but combine them into 1 swf file. Then clients could navigate from the menu to the item in which they are interested. You could then put another slideshow on the relevant page highlighting that item.