At 03:34 PM 2/26/2011, J.A. Florian wrote: >Pat, > >I appreciate what you've done... but I'm more confused without the >sections commented. > >The zzz_template_css-tidy.htm page has your comments from the "misc" >website. The full URL is ><http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~florian/o_f2/mcdonald-pa_3/zzz_template_css-tidy.htm>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~florian/o_f2/mcdonald-pa_3/zzz_template_css-tidy.htm ================ You cannot use the css from the link I included to work with the template you are trying to fix. You are going to at some point have to spend some time learning exactly how css works. I commented the style sheet extensively so you could match up what is in the style sheet with how it relates to the id and classes from the html code. I did not include all the various includes you are using for search and what have you and I did not recreat the structure from your directory to get the paths to the various images correct. <http://www.css-layouts.org/judy/default.html>http://www.css-layouts.org/judy/default.html Unfortunately right now, I do not have the time to redo the original template. The layered look depends on three different backgrounds The body style calls the first background image whatever you wish it to be and declares a color that is close to it in case the image does not load. This set of style rules styles the middle border and if the path to the image is correct. /* ============================ styles the middle border of the page =========================== */ #outer { background-image: url('images/beige1_p3.jpg'); border: 3px ridge #FF3300; margin: 15px auto; padding: 10px; width: 90%; background-color: #C29381; } /* ============================ styles the inside border of the page =========================== */ #middle { background: #FAEBD7 url('images/beige1_p3.jpg'); border: 3px black ridge; margin: 15px auto; padding: 10px; width: 90%; } These are NOT the same as the ones from the original template but there is enough commenting on the original one that you should be able to match up the three areas that give the three layers of the background. So your first image and color go with the body style rules the 2nd image and color go with the section that is that region of the template The 3rd image and color go with whatever that region is named. Add color borders to the various style rules so you can distinguish one from the other and comment them out or change them once you have it working correctly. pat