http://omnimist.net/leon/ (First attempt at CSS)

http://omnimist.net/leon/

Well as most are, and I shall follow the leaders and move from tables to CSS. I just started learning CSS yesterday and i found it a little confusing but I managed to bring this site out.

*Note* This is just a layout that I made and would very much appreciate comments on it, on the code and stylesheet and overall appearance. Thankyou.

Looks good. You'll probably want to fill those blank spaces down the sides with something since it looks a little bare. You could even bring your navigation down to the left, or just expand your content if you have nothing else to put in there.

Edit: you may do this later, but you can add some padding to the message conent so the words are hugging the edges of the box.

Yeah I am planning on filling those with some content, i just wanted to post it up here as-is to see if it looks good, if the css is right and such. I know its bare right now but its simply the layout. Thanks for your words of advice, and ill keep that padding in the message content in mind. Thanks.

Steer clear of using black on that blue as it makes for some rather difficult reading. Instead try a color like white.

Sure you meant to post that here and not here?

Edit: Forget this, see post below.

When I first picked the background color, it was a dark blue and I wanted to use black as the text color, so i made the blue a little lighter, is it still too dark to use black text?

*Edit* I changed the color from 37c to 38c to make it slightly a lighter blue, i tried 39c but just didnt like that color

None of that blue blue background shows up at all in Firefox. Take a look.

Unfortunatly I'm using a work computer right now and don't have FireFox but i may of said that wrong, the Background of the PAGE is white, the blue background im refering to is the header and side bars (unless thats what your talking about to) then ill have to wait until i get home to fix that, is there a chance you can take a screen shot for me?

you want to go with blue background and a white Text, Black just isn't eye friendly enough

Here you go. Ignore the funky colours on everything else. Paint is all I've got, and on Win2000 it isn't as good as the newer versions

Oh wow, hmm... well you can see the borders around the messages in the center, its supposed to look like this...

(see attachment)

do you know why it does that? like i said im really new to css, is it because im using 3 characters for colors and not the 6?
im using 38c and i should use 3388cc?

Seems as though you just need to replace "background" with "background-color" in your css.

But then you'll see a little alignment issues with your navigation. See screenshot.

I changed the background to background-color and changed the menu from position bottom:5px to bottom:10px, hopefully that fixed the FF problem, let me know if you can, your help is much appriciated!