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Check out this site: http://www.wairoa.com/
It looks like he has pretty much the same layout your site has….his CSS might be worth looking at.

Koad’s approach is different. And TBH, I’ve never been successful positioning everything on a background defined in the body tag. In my layout I originally tried to define the background that way and found I had better luck defining it to the rap div. If Koad decided to do it that way he would have to redo the images and may even need to get rid of the textured background. There’s nothing really slick about my comment page. I just switch the style sheet to display only the content div which is define a little bit wider and positioned over the center of the rap background. To keep the “semantic” spirit I load a common stylesheet that’s used for all pages and swap the necessary styles for the particular page with the relevant stylesheet.
I still have WordPress displayed as Meta.

I noticed you defined your background in the body tag. I defined mine in the “rap” div. That could be the source of your trouble. I suggest you define the background in the rap div…..or…..move the .credit outside of the “rap” div and define the .credits with the margin: 10px auto; and the width (700px – border adjustment).
You might have better luck though defining the background in the rap.

It’s sort of tough to find what’s going on with your footer….what I would do is start from the beginning and define the “rap” tag as position:relative; …then I’d begin to adjust things as needed.

If you are using the original template you can change the search imput width via “#menu input#s”
BTW, something I found…that might add to your search input tag:
onfocus="this.value='';" onblur="if (this.value=='') {this.value='Enter Search Here';}" type="text" value="Enter Search Here"
This way when someone clicks away from the search box the text reappears.

That would be a neat hack for WP…if one doesn’t exist already. Drupal has some of the infrastructure already in place for parts of what you’d like to do. It has a built in aggregator and php cron file…and it lists all the news items with a special link icon to “blog it”…thus filling out most of the form with what you need to start a post–including the quoted excerpt. It would be very cool to see something like this built into WP.

I think it does….that’s why I like containers. But then CSS confuses me. 🙂