Hey guys,
Can you's tell me what i've done wrong?
There are heaps of gaps on a site im designing for a customer. you see the site here www.swiftproductions.com.au/gm/home.php - if you view it in I,E its fine but in FF the gaps are all there.
however
in I.E the footer line is not flat (the light purple on the bottom), it actully is higher in I.E but should be the same way across as it is in FF.
I need this sorted out ASAP so i'd appreciate all the help.

Wrong section, this is a CSS based issue.

Moved to css forum.

I just looked at your css and it seems to be this line at issue:

.footer{ background:#cc99ff; padding-top:27px; text-align:center; height:74px; color:#63248c}

The differences you see are due to differences in the way the browsers are treating the box model. To get the effect you want in Firefox you need to either increase the padding-top on the footer or increase the height. (probably by 27px)

Naturally that's going to throw things off in IE. The easiest and quickest fix is to set up conditional comments for IE and then present IE specific css. in this case you'd just need to have the css for either the padding-top of the height to set it back to the value you're using now.

hey not sure if this means anything but the problem im having is only happening when i convert the HTML to PHP- appart from that works fine in IE and FF

That shouldn't make a difference unless the html your php is producing is different from the html you'd get without using php.

Did you try what U suggested above?

yeah i did... still didn't work. however i sort off found a quick solution though to the php thing.

i just added <?PHP
?>

and it works. the problem thats happening is whne i have the header and footer as header.php / footer.php this is happening. When i give the PHP command at the top of the HTML its fine but i can't have the page refer to the external header/footer.php page.

I wish my programmer was here.............

<?php turns php on and ?> turns it off. If you have any php code on the page it needs to be between those tags. You can add php anywhere in the page as long as you wrap it in the tags.

If you want to include a header it would probably look something like:

<?php include "path-to-header.php"; ?>

That could appear anywhere within your html. If you want to post the code here I'm sure we can get the includes working.