I've spent the last day trying to re-work an External CSS. I still need some help though. My eyes aren't good with picking color shades. I took the CSS that Pat G made for me for my religions website and changed stuff in the CSS for my rootsweb site. The good news is that it still validates-- meaning, I didn't mess up Pat's work-- yay! (I've messed up enough "CSS tests" in the past.) The page is http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pawashin/z_testing_css_2nd-try.htm The css is: pagenweb.css It took me hours & hours to figure out why my background image or #colors didn't work, but I finally got the background image (outermost image) to show up. But to do that, I had to remove all the #color numbers and other images so I could see each piece as I put stuff back in (or changed it) one at a time. Here are the things I need to know: 1. Does it look ok? 2. Why does the innermost layer on the right not show as much red border from the middlemost layer, like it shows on the left side? 3. BIG issue-- what #colors go with the colored-images I used? If my images fail, I need the background colors to be there, but I'm not sure I picked good #colors. I'm not color blind, but I can't tell shade differences very well. Can someone check my colors, and tell me what #colors I should use in each layer? 4. I'm mostly concerned that if the images fail, I might have picked a background color that won't show my content. So could you pay extra, extra attention to the colors I picked. 5. For the "beige" innermost layer where the content goes, I couldn't find a #color that matched well. Can you help? 6. Also for the innermost, I added a #color to the comment just to save it. But I don't know IF a color specification is supposed to be in this section (or not). What happens if the beige image on the inner content area fails-- which color will show then? i.e. I used a dark #color for the outermost and middle layers, so I'm thinking that is a mistake?? See question #4. Here is how the innermost section is set up: /* ===================== inner or centermost layer ---- 3rd color try beige hex #E2DDB5 ======================= */ #inner { margin: 15px auto 15px auto; width: 99%; background-image: url('wbeige_3rd.jpg');/*pinkish*/; padding: 10px; border: 2px ridge #999999; } /* ========================= 7. Lastly, I don't have right background color here: .tblhdr { background-color: #E2DDB5; W3 validator wanted a color there. I just want tables cells to be the same coloring that's in 'wbeige_3rd.jpg' which I used for the content area//innermost layer. Thank you for looking it over and for help with the #colors. Judy