you should really get rid of all that internal style stuff and use an external style sheet like i have shown in my tutorial

but i will try out your code (it better be valid css )


EDIT: that new code is better but it still looks awfull here is my css code for you to trouble shoot

Code:
body * { *
 * * * * * background-color: #003366;
 * * * * * color: #00E000;
 * * * * * position: relative;
 * * * * * *}
A:link * * {
 * * * * * *color: #FF9900;
 * * * * * *text-decoration: none;
 * * * * * *}
A:visited {
 * * * * * *color: #B6B6B6;
 * * * * * *text-decoration: none;
 * * * * * *}
A:active {
 * * * * * *color: #B6B6B6;
 * * * * * *text-decoration: none;
 * * * * * *}
A:hover {
 * * * * * *color: #979797;
 * * * * * *text-decoration: none;
 * * * * * * } 
div.content {
 *width: 60%;
 * * * * * * * *margin: 0 20%;
 * * * * * * * *top: 200px;
 * * * * * * * *left: 25%;
 * * * * font: 11px/16px verdana, arial, sans-serif;
 *text-align: justify;
 * * * * * * * *border: 2px solid *#E07000;
 * * * * * * * *}

div.leftcol {
 *position: absolute;
 *left: 0%;
 * * * * * * * *top: 148px;
 *width: 18%;
 *font: 11px/16px verdana, arial, sans-serif;
 * * * * * * * *border: 2px solid *#E07000;
 * * * * * * * *height: 200px
 * * * * * * * *}

div.rightcol {
 * * * * position: absolute;
 * * * * * * * *width: 18%;
 * * * * * * * *left: 70%;
 * * * * * * * *top: 148px;
 *font: 11px/16px verdana, arial, sans-serif;
 * * * * * * * *border: 2px solid *#E07000;
 * * * * * * * *height: 200px;
 * * * * * * * *}
#header {
position: absolute;
left: 0%;
top: 0%;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
and then my index code

Code:
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head><META NAME="Title" CONTENT="ultimategaming, Ultimate Gaming">
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="tfc_generalKMK">
<META NAME="Subject" CONTENT="gaming, forums, ultimategaming">

<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="a gaming site where games come to life">
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="gaming,forums,ultimategaming,my personal site, downloads,cheat codes">
<META NAME="Language" CONTENT="English">
<META NAME="Copyright" CONTENT="Copyright of author">
<META NAME="Designer" CONTENT="designer">
<META NAME="Publisher" CONTENT="lifelesspeople.com">
<META NAME="Distribution" CONTENT="Global">
<META NAME="Robots" CONTENT="All">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="personal.css" type="text/css">
<title>personal site</title> 
</head>
<body><div id="header">
<img src="http://www.ultimategaming.info/images/personalbanner.png" alt="personal site banner">
</div>
<div class="leftcol"><?php
 *include("personalnav.php");?><br><br><?php include("search.php");?><br><br><?php include("meta.php");?></div>
<div class="content"><?php $number="5"; include("personal/show_news.php");?></div><div class="rightcol"><?php include("blogaffiliates.php");?></div>

</body>
</html>
please help me get this right in the mean time i will check it out with IE see if it is working there and not here for some reason :huh: