I need help :(

I am having some trouble with a site I am designing, and could use some advice.

The Site: www.311galleriesandstudios.org

For starters when I open the page in Firefox, the menu does not stat at the top of the column like it is supposed to. Also none of my style sheets seem to take effect in firefox as well. Finally on certain pages the background and border are messed up (white and not correct float). Any advice or help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Dan,

I took a look at your site in both Firefox and IE, and here are a couple of things I noticed:

- When you say "the menu does not start at the top of the column," I assume you're talking about your navigation menu (Home, Artists and Art, etc.). When I view the site in Firefox and IE, this navigation menu appears in the same place in both browsers. That is, it looks to be aligned in the (vertical) center of the row. I'm guessing one of your valign="middle" attributes is causing this?

- I'm not sure why the "Galleries" and "Studios" text isn't formatted correctly in Firefox, but I did notice that in your source doc you reference a "style5" for that row of the table, and I didn't see a style5 defined in your style definitions. Do you have this defined in an external file?


Hope this helps,
Lance

The menu doesn't start at the top in FF? Do you mean you want it to be a horizontal menu next to the logo? Or just aligned closer to the top.

Style sheets: I don't see that you are importing any sheets in your html. You just have some styles in the head of each document. When you do that, you aren't truly taking advantage of CSS. Create a style sheet called "style.css" and put all of that stuff in there. Then link it in the head of each document. This is how you link a style sheet:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />

That way when you make one change in the css, it "cascades" throughout all of your documents.

Also, I think it would make for cleaner markup if you did not use tables in this design. Tables for layout are always a bad idea. Tables are encouraged only for displaying tables of data.

Good luck,
~Jeff