I screwed up...bad alignment issue

[ffemtrfc1]

Well,

I posted a "Live scrolling ticker html code" (which got deleted due to not working properly) into my "top menu style sheet" under now my header picture and menu underneath aren't centered to the center of the screen like before the code was posted and a huge chunk of wallpaper is missing to the right and our "News" posts are out of alignment underneath.

You can check out our fire depts site here, I'm the admin and several people are counting on me...

www.rescuefirecompany.org

Its possible that I could have deleted something...But I was being EXTRA careful...At least I thought so...

Any help is highly appreciated

[HansDampf]

I do not understand completeley

HTML Code does not belong into stylesheets but templates, is HTML, not CSS

try this:

the definition for the background-image is not defined completely, the position of the image is lacking

in the stylesheet, which is associated with your template you find this:

Code: Select all

   background: url(uploads/images/top-header_1.JPG) no-repeat;

change this to

Code: Select all

   background: url(uploads/images/top-header_1.JPG) no-repeat center;

Good luck, Hans Dampf

[ffemtrfc1]

Still wont align up... Here is my code:

/*****************
browsers interpret margin and padding a little differently,
we'll remove all default padding and margins and
set them later on
******************/
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

/*
Set initial font styles
*/
body {
  text-align: left;
    font-family: arial, Lucida Sans Unicode, Veranda, Times New Roman, Times, serif;
  font-size: 82%;
  line-height: 1.2em;
}
/*
set font size for all divs,
this overrides some body rules
*/
div {
  font-size: 1em;
}

/*
if img is inside "a" it would have
borders, we don't want that
*/
img {
  border: 0;
}

/*
default link styles
*/
/* set all links to have underline and bluish color */
a,
a:link
a:active {
  text-decoration: underline;
/* css validation will give a warning if color is set without background color. this will explicitly tell this element to inherit bg colour from parent element */
  background-color: inherit;
  color: #18507C;
}

a:visited {
  text-decoration: underline;
  background-color: inherit;
  color: #18507C;                /* a different color can be used for visited links */
}


/* remove underline on hover and change color */
a:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
  background-color: #C3D4DF;
  color: #385C72;
}

/*****************
basic layout
*****************/
body {
  background: url(images/cms/bg.jpg) repeat;
  color: #ccc;
  margin:1em; /* gives some air for the pagewrapper */
}

/* center wrapper, min max width */
div#pagewrapper {
  border: 0px solid black;
  margin: 0 auto;    /* this centers wrapper */
  max-width: 900px; /* IE wont understand these, so we will use javascript magick */
  min-width: 900px;
  background-color: #ebebeb;
  color: black;
}


/*** header ***
we will hide text and replace it with a image
we need to assign a height for it
*/

div#header {
  height: 180px; /* adjust according your image size */
  background: url(images/cms/top-header.jpg) no-repeat center;   
    text-indent: -999em;  /* this hides the text */
  text-decoration:none     
}


div#search {
  float: right;
  width: 27em;    /* enough width for the search input box */
  text-align: right;
  padding: 5px 0 0 0;
  margin: 0 1em;
}

div.breadcrumbs {
  padding: 1em 0 1.2em 0; /* CSS short hand rule first value is top then right, bottom and left */
  font-size: 90%;            /* its good to set fontsizes to be relative, this way viewer can change his/her fontsize */
  margin: 0 1em;              /* css shorthand rule will be opened to be "0 1em 0 1em" */
  border-bottom: 1px dotted #000;
}

div.breadcrumbs span.lastitem {
  font-weight:bold;
}


div#content {
  padding: 2.5em 0 1.5em 0;
}

div#main {
    margin-left: 20px; /* this will center the object */
    margin-right: 20px; /* this will center the object  */
}



div#footer {
  clear:both;      /* keep footer below content and menu */
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #000; /* same bg color as in header */
}

div#footer p {
  font-size: 0.8em;
  padding: 1.5em;      /* some air for footer */
  text-align: center; /* centered text */
  margin:0;
}

div#footer p a {
  color: #fff; /* needed becouse footer link would be same color as background otherwise */
}

/* as we hid all hr for accessibility we create new hr with extra div element */
div.hr {
  height: 1px;
  margin: 1em;
  border-bottom: 1px dotted black;
}

/* relational links under content */
div.left49 {
  float:leftr;
  width: 49%;  /* 50% for both left and right might lead to rounding error on some browser */
}

div.right49 {
  float: right;
  width: 49%;
  text-align: right;
}




/********************
CONTENT STYLING
*********************/
div#content {

}

/* HEADINGS */
div#content h1 {
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #6D0101;
  font-size: 1.2em;  /* font size for h1 */
  line-height: 1.5em;
  margin: 0;
  text-align: center;
}
div#content h2 {
    font-weight: bold;
  color: #666;
  font-size: 1.5em;
  text-align: center;
/* some air around the text */
  padding-left: 0.1em;
  padding-bottom: 1px;
/* set borders around header */
  border-bottom: 0px solid #6D0101;
  border-left: 0em solid #6D0101;
  line-height: 1.5em;
/* and some air under the border */
  margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
}
div#content h3 {
      color: #6D0101;
  font-size: 1.0em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
    text-align: left;
}
div#content h4 {
  color: #6D0101;
  font-size: 1.2em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
div#content h5 {
  font-size: 1.1em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
h6 {
  font-size: 1em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
/* END HEADINGS */

/* TEXT */
p {
  font-size: 1em;
  margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;  /* some air around p elements */
  line-height:1.4em;
  padding: 0;
}
blockquote {
  border-left: 10px solid #ddd;
  margin-left: 10px;
}
pre {
  font-family: monospace;
  font-size: 1.0em;
}
strong, b {
/* explicit setting for these */
  font-weight: bold;
}
em, i {
/* explicit setting for these */
  font-style:italic;
}

/* Wrapping text in tags. Makes CSS not validate */
code, pre {
white-space: pre-wrap;      /* css-3 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;  /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap;      /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap;    /* Opera 7 */
word-wrap: break-word;      /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
font-size: 1em;
}

pre {
  border: 1px solid #000;  /* black border for pre blocks */
  background-color: #ddd;
  margin: 0 1em 1em 1em;
  padding: 0.5em;
  line-height: 1.5em;
  font-size: 90%;  /* smaller font size, as these are usually not so important data */
}

/* END TEXT */

/* LISTS */
div#main ul,
div#main ol,
div#main dl {
  font-size: 1.0em;
  line-height:1.4em;
  margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;
}
div#main ul li,
div#main ol li {
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 3em;
}

div#dl dt {
  font-weight: bold;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 3em;
}
div#dl dd {
  margin: 0 0 0 3em;
}
/* END LISTS */

[ffemtrfc1]

I posted the "html" coding into this area by accident...now my alignment is off centered...

www.rescuefirecompany.org

[ffemtrfc1]

I posted the "html" coding into this area by accident...now my alignment is off centered...

www.rescuefirecompany.org

Can you check this code too just to make sure? I got the picture centered, now I need the links underneath to be centered again like I once had it...Also, missing wall paper on 2 sides..Check this code too please.

Thank you

/*****************
browsers interpret margin and padding a little differently,
we'll remove all default padding and margins and
set them later on
******************/
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

/*
Set initial font styles
*/
body {
  text-align: left;
  font-family: arial, Lucida Sans Unicode, Veranda, Times New Roman, Times, serif;
  font-size: 82%;
  line-height: 1.2em;
}

/*
set font size for all divs,
this overrides some body rules
*/
div {
  font-size: 1em;
}

/*
if img is inside "a" it would have
borders, we don't want that
*/
img {
  border: 0;
  padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
}

/*
default link styles
*/
/* set all links to have underline and bluish color */
a,
a:link
a:active {
  text-decoration: underline;
/* css validation will give a warning if color is set without background color. this will explicitly tell this element to inherit bg colour from parent element */
  background-color: inherit;
  color: #f00400;
}

a:visited {
  text-decoration: underline;
  background-color: inherit;
  color: #f00400;                /* a different color can be used for visited links */
}


/* remove underline on hover and change color */
a:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
  background-color: #404040;
  color: #f00400;
}

/*****************
basic layout
*****************/
body {
  background: url(uploads/images/flames_2.jpg) repeat;
  color: #ccc;
  margin:1em; /* gives some air for the pagewrapper */
}

.mceContentBody {
text-align: left;
background: #FFF none;
font: normal 11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

/* center wrapper, min max width */
div#pagewrapper {
  border: 0px solid black;
  margin: 0 auto;    /* this centers wrapper */
  max-width: 900px; /* IE wont understand these, so we will use javascript magick */
  min-width: 900px;
  background-color: #8c0009;
  color: black;
}


/*** header ***
we will hide text and replace it with a image
we need to assign a height for it
*/

div#header {
  height: 180px; /* adjust according your image size */
  background: #000000; 
         
}

div#header h1 a {
/* you can set your own image here */
  background: url(uploads/images/top-header_1.JPG) no-repeat center;
  display: block;
  height: 180px;            /* adjust according your image size */
  text-indent: -999em;  /* this hides the text */
  text-decoration:none; /* old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
}

div#header h2 a {
/* you can set your own image here */
  background: url(images/cms/top-header2.jpg) no-repeat;
  display: block;
  height: 180px;            /* adjust according your image size */
  text-indent: -999em;  /* this hides the text */
  text-decoration:none; /* old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
}

div#header h3 a {
/* you can set your own image here */
  background: url(images/cms/top-header3.jpg) no-repeat;
  display: block;
  height: 180px;            /* adjust according your image size */
  text-indent: -999em;  /* this hides the text */
  text-decoration:none; /* old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
}


div#search {
  float: left;
  width: 200px;    /* enough width for the search input box */
  text-align: left;
  padding: 30px 0 0 0;
  margin: 0 1em;
}

div.breadcrumbs {
  padding: 1em 0 1.2em 0; /* CSS short hand rule first value is top then right, bottom and left */
  font-size: 90%;            /* its good to set fontsizes to be relative, this way viewer can change his/her fontsize */
  margin: 0 1em;              /* css shorthand rule will be opened to be "0 1em 0 1em" */
  border-bottom: 1px dotted #000;
}

div.breadcrumbs span.lastitem {
  font-weight:bold;
}


div#content {
  padding: 1.5em 0 1.5em 0;
}

div#main {
 
  margin-left: 250px; /* this will give room for sidebar to be on the left side, make sure this space is bigger than sidebar width */
  margin-right: 260px:
  width: 100%;
 
 
}


div#sidebar {
  float: left;
  width: 270px;    /* sidebar width, if you change this please also change #main margins */
  display: inline;  /* FIX ie doublemargin bug */
  margin-left: 0;
  min-height: 600px;
  border-right: solid 1px #ccc;
}

div#rsidebar {
  float: right;
  width: 250px;
  margin-right: 0px; /* and some air on the right */
  min-height: 600px;
  border-left: solid 1px #ccc;
  padding: 0 5px 0 5px;
}


/* if sidebar doesnt include menu but content add class="hascontent" */
div#sidebar.hascontent {
  padding: 0 1%;
  width: 24%;  /* make width smaller if there's padding, or it will get too wide for the floated divs in IE */
}

div#footer {
  clear:both;      /* keep footer below content and menu */
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #000; /* same bg color as in header */
}

div#footer p {
  font-size: 0.8em;
  padding: 1.5em;      /* some air for footer */
  text-align: center; /* centered text */
  margin:0;
}

div#footer p a {
  color: #fff; /* needed becouse footer link would be same color as background otherwise */
}

/* as we hid all hr for accessibility we create new hr with extra div element */
div.hr {
  height: 1px;
  margin: 1em;
  border-bottom: 1px dotted black;
}

/* relational links under content */
div.left49 {
  float: left;
  width: 49%;  /* 50% for both left and right might lead to rounding error on some browser */
}

div.right49 {
  float: right;
  width: 49%;
  text-align: right;
}



/********************
CONTENT STYLING
*********************/
div#content {

}

/* HEADINGS */
div#content h1 {
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #f00400;
  font-size: 1.2em;  /* font size for h1 */
  line-height: 1.5em;
  margin: 0;
  text-align: left;
}
div#content h2 {
    font-weight: bold;
  color: #f5f5f5;
  font-size: 1.5em;
  text-align: center;
/* some air around the text */
  padding-left: 0.1em;
  padding-bottom: 1px;
/* set borders around header */
  border-bottom: 0px solid #f5f5f5;
  border-left: 0em solid #f5f5f5;
  line-height: 1.5em;
/* and some air under the border */
  margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
}
div#content h3 {
      color: #f5f5f5;
  font-size: 1.0em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
    text-align: left;
}
div#content h4 {
  color: #f5f5f5;
  font-size: 1.2em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
div#content h5 {
  font-size: 1.1em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
h6 {
  font-size: 1em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
/* END HEADINGS */

/* TEXT */
p {
  font-size: 1em;
  margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;  /* some air around p elements */
  line-height:1.4em;
  padding: 0;
}
blockquote {
  border-left: 10px solid #f5f5f5;
  margin-left: 10px;
}
pre {
  font-family: monospace;
  font-size: 1.0em;
}
strong, b {
/* explicit setting for these */
  font-weight: bold;
}
em, i {
/* explicit setting for these */
  font-style:italic;
}

/* Wrapping text in tags. Makes CSS not validate */
code, pre {
white-space: pre-wrap;      /* css-3 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;  /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap;      /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap;    /* Opera 7 */
word-wrap: break-word;      /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
font-size: 1em;
}

pre {
  border: 1px solid #000;  /* black border for pre blocks */
  background-color: #ddd;
  margin: 0 1em 1em 1em;
  padding: 0.5em;
  line-height: 1.5em;
  font-size: 90%;  /* smaller font size, as these are usually not so important data */
}

/* END TEXT */

/* LISTS */
div#main ul,
div#main ol,
div#main dl {
  font-size: 1.0em;
  line-height:1.4em;
  margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;
}
div#main ul li,
div#main ol li {
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 3em;
}

div#dl dt {
  font-weight: bold;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 3em;
}
div#dl dd {
  margin: 0 0 0 3em;
}
/* END LISTS */

[klenkes]

Hi.
You screwed up, that's for sure.

Your div#sidebar has a width of 24% but your div#main a margin-left of 250px. Means: sidebar is fliud but main has a fixed distance to the left, and where the sidebar ends, the posts flip to the left to the 250px. That's why your News post aren't aligned underneath.

Bernd

[ffemtrfc1]

Hi.
You screwed up, that's for sure.

Your div#sidebar has a width of 24% but your div#main a margin-left of 250px. Means: sidebar is fliud but main has a fixed distance to the left, and where the sidebar ends, the posts flip to the left to the 250px. That's why your News post aren't aligned underneath.

Bernd

Thanks Bernd,

So what should I do?

[klenkes]

For example give the sidebar a fixed width like 240px or for the #main a margin-left of 24%.

[ffemtrfc1]

For example give the sidebar a fixed width like 240px or for the #main a margin-left of 24%.

Tried this and still nothing... I'll copy and paste it again, can you color the spots I need to fix...I'm a newbie at all of this still...I thank you a lot

/*****************
browsers interpret margin and padding a little differently,
we'll remove all default padding and margins and
set them later on
******************/
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

/*
Set initial font styles
*/
body {
  text-align: left;
  font-family: arial, Lucida Sans Unicode, Veranda, Times New Roman, Times, serif;
  font-size: 82%;
  line-height: 1.2em;
}

/*
set font size for all divs,
this overrides some body rules
*/
div {
  font-size: 1em;
}

/*
if img is inside "a" it would have
borders, we don't want that
*/
img {
  border: 0;
  padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
}

/*
default link styles
*/
/* set all links to have underline and bluish color */
a,
a:link
a:active {
  text-decoration: underline;
/* css validation will give a warning if color is set without background color. this will explicitly tell this element to inherit bg colour from parent element */
  background-color: inherit;
  color: #f00400;
}

a:visited {
  text-decoration: underline;
  background-color: inherit;
  color: #f00400;                /* a different color can be used for visited links */
}


/* remove underline on hover and change color */
a:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
  background-color: #404040;
  color: #f00400;
}

/*****************
basic layout
*****************/
body {
  background: url(uploads/images/flames_2.jpg) repeat;
  color: #ccc;
  margin:1em; /* gives some air for the pagewrapper */
}

.mceContentBody {
text-align: left;
background: #FFF none;
font: normal 11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

/* center wrapper, min max width */
div#pagewrapper {
  border: 0px solid black;
  margin: 0 auto;    /* this centers wrapper */
  max-width: 900px; /* IE wont understand these, so we will use javascript magick */
  min-width: 900px;
  background-color: #8c0009;
  color: black;
}


/*** header ***
we will hide text and replace it with a image
we need to assign a height for it
*/

div#header {
  height: 180px; /* adjust according your image size */
  background: #000000; 
         
}

div#header h1 a {
/* you can set your own image here */
  background: url(uploads/images/top-header_1.JPG) no-repeat center;
  display: block;
  height: 180px;            /* adjust according your image size */
  text-indent: -999em;  /* this hides the text */
  text-decoration:none; /* old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
}

div#header h2 a {
/* you can set your own image here */
  background: url(images/cms/top-header2.jpg) no-repeat;
  display: block;
  height: 180px;            /* adjust according your image size */
  text-indent: -999em;  /* this hides the text */
  text-decoration:none; /* old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
}

div#header h3 a {
/* you can set your own image here */
  background: url(images/cms/top-header3.jpg) no-repeat;
  display: block;
  height: 180px;            /* adjust according your image size */
  text-indent: -999em;  /* this hides the text */
  text-decoration:none; /* old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
}


div#search {
  float: left;
  width: 200px;    /* enough width for the search input box */
  text-align: left;
  padding: 30px 0 0 0;
  margin: 0 1em;
}

div.breadcrumbs {
  padding: 1em 0 1.2em 0; /* CSS short hand rule first value is top then right, bottom and left */
  font-size: 90%;            /* its good to set fontsizes to be relative, this way viewer can change his/her fontsize */
  margin: 0 1em;              /* css shorthand rule will be opened to be "0 1em 0 1em" */
  border-bottom: 1px dotted #000;
}

div.breadcrumbs span.lastitem {
  font-weight:bold;
}


div#content {
  padding: 1.5em 0 1.5em 0;
}

div#main {
 
  margin-left: 250px; /* this will give room for sidebar to be on the left side, make sure this space is bigger than sidebar width */
  margin-right: 260px:
  width: 24%;
 
 
}


div#sidebar {
  float: left;
  width: 240px;    /* sidebar width, if you change this please also change #main margins */
  display: inline;  /* FIX ie doublemargin bug */
  margin-left: 0;
  min-height: 600px;
  border-right: solid 1px #ccc;
}

div#rsidebar {
  float: right;
  width: 180px;
  margin-right: 0px; /* and some air on the right */
  min-height: 600px;
  border-left: solid 1px #ccc;
  padding: 0 5px 0 5px;
}


/* if sidebar doesnt include menu but content add class="hascontent" */
div#sidebar.hascontent {
  padding: 0 1%;
  width: 20%;  /* make width smaller if there's padding, or it will get too wide for the floated divs in IE */
}

div#footer {
  clear:both;      /* keep footer below content and menu */
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #000; /* same bg color as in header */
}

div#footer p {
  font-size: 0.8em;
  padding: 1.5em;      /* some air for footer */
  text-align: center; /* centered text */
  margin:0;
}

div#footer p a {
  color: #fff; /* needed becouse footer link would be same color as background otherwise */
}

/* as we hid all hr for accessibility we create new hr with extra div element */
div.hr {
  height: 1px;
  margin: 1em;
  border-bottom: 1px dotted black;
}

/* relational links under content */
div.left49 {
  float: left;
  width: 49%;  /* 50% for both left and right might lead to rounding error on some browser */
}

div.right49 {
  float: right;
  width: 49%;
  text-align: right;
}



/********************
CONTENT STYLING
*********************/
div#content {

}

/* HEADINGS */
div#content h1 {
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #f00400;
  font-size: 1.2em;  /* font size for h1 */
  line-height: 1.5em;
  margin: 0;
  text-align: left;
}
div#content h2 {
    font-weight: bold;
  color: #f5f5f5;
  font-size: 1.5em;
  text-align: center;
/* some air around the text */
  padding-left: 0.1em;
  padding-bottom: 1px;
/* set borders around header */
  border-bottom: 0px solid #f5f5f5;
  border-left: 0em solid #f5f5f5;
  line-height: 1.5em;
/* and some air under the border */
  margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
}
div#content h3 {
      color: #f5f5f5;
  font-size: 1.0em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
    text-align: left;
}
div#content h4 {
  color: #f5f5f5;
  font-size: 1.2em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
div#content h5 {
  font-size: 1.1em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
h6 {
  font-size: 1em;
  line-height: 1.3em;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
}
/* END HEADINGS */

/* TEXT */
p {
  font-size: 1em;
  margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;  /* some air around p elements */
  line-height:1.4em;
  padding: 0;
}
blockquote {
  border-left: 10px solid #f5f5f5;
  margin-left: 10px;
}
pre {
  font-family: monospace;
  font-size: 1.0em;
}
strong, b {
/* explicit setting for these */
  font-weight: bold;
}
em, i {
/* explicit setting for these */
  font-style:italic;
}

/* Wrapping text in tags. Makes CSS not validate */
code, pre {
white-space: pre-wrap;      /* css-3 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;  /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap;      /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap;    /* Opera 7 */
word-wrap: break-word;      /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
font-size: 1em;
}

pre {
  border: 1px solid #000;  /* black border for pre blocks */
  background-color: #ddd;
  margin: 0 1em 1em 1em;
  padding: 0.5em;
  line-height: 1.5em;
  font-size: 90%;  /* smaller font size, as these are usually not so important data */
}

/* END TEXT */

/* LISTS */
div#main ul,
div#main ol,
div#main dl {
  font-size: 1.0em;
  line-height:1.4em;
  margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;
}
div#main ul li,
div#main ol li {
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 3em;
}

div#dl dt {
  font-weight: bold;
  margin: 0 0 0.25em 3em;
}
div#dl dd {
  margin: 0 0 0 3em;
}
/* END LISTS */

[ffemtrfc1]

Also,

How do I align the links up under the header picture? Sorry for being a newbie pain in the rear...Thank you

[klenkes]

div#main {
 
  margin-left: 250px; /* this will give room for sidebar to be on the left side, make sure this space is bigger than sidebar width */
  margin-right: 260px:
  width: 24%;
 
 
}


div#sidebar {
  float: left;
  width: 240px;    /* sidebar width, if you change this please also change #main margins */
  display: inline;  /* FIX ie doublemargin bug */
  margin-left: 0;
  min-height: 600px;
  border-right: solid 1px #ccc;
}


/* if sidebar doesnt include menu but content add class="hascontent" */
div#sidebar.hascontent {
  padding: 0 1%;
  width: 20%;  /* make width smaller if there's padding, or it will get too wide for the floated divs in IE */
}

Those are the areas that are responsible for this. Either in percent or fixed in pixels.
Set both sidebars to 240px to test it.
Or...
#main to margin-left:24%.

[klenkes]

To center your menu you have to give the surrounding container a margin:0 auto; or text-align:center; which centers everything inside. margin is better.

[HansDampf]

@ffemtrfc1

as I see it, the image in the header is centered now, did you clear your browser's cache?

May I suggest not to use such a "strong" background-image as http://www.rescuefirecompany.org/upload ... ames_2.jpg? The text is barely readable and the repeating of the image is too bad (scroll down and see )


as you seem to have so big problems and are not savy in CSS, try to start anew with the unmodified template

you don't have a backup`?

I am sure when you prepared the website you took an existing theme / template and did not write it yourself

so I am sure as well that you have that template at hand, can take it from a backup, from your local harddrive or download it from the themes-section here

which template/Theme did you use?