I know my designing skills are very poor. but that isnt what i was meaning by the title of the post.
I did something to the css / html that made the index.php file work (http://ap-gfx.com) so my listings wer up next to the navigation. but I did something else and it just blew up in my face! it went back to its usual self please help!

Try the following:

1) Wrap the left menus in a new single div, which will need to be set to float left, ie:

<div class="leftcolumn"><div class="menu">...</div><div class="menu">...</div></div>

2) Move the clearing div you have at the bottom up into the content div, ie change:

</div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div id="copyright">Copyright 2007-2009</div>
</body>
</html>

to:

<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="copyright">Copyright 2007-2009</div>
</body>
</html>

Hope this helps

It's because you should put your 2 div with the class "menu" into another div, and float that container to the left.
Your 2 menu divs are simply pushing your datas below them, as they are block elements.

Edit:
I've been beaten on the finish line....