Alright I just build my first all div and css web site and I've got it almost 100% the way I want it, with one problem. There is a huge white border all around my site. I'm sure there is just some tweak to the css that needs to be done but I can't find it. I'd appreciate any help I can get.

I've dummied the site up on my home page
http://aeuzent.cjb.cc/index2.html

body {
  margin:0px;
}

probably

...I can't believe it was that easy. I always end up smacking myself after stuff like this.

What about the couple hundred pixels of white space next to my right edge?

I think it has to do with the fact I didn't use CSS to position that one. I couldn't figure out the coding right.

you have no doctype despite using XHTML tags so the browser have to "guess" at how to render the page

It will be a combination of the paddings, margins and absolute pasitioning causing the problem.

A bit of playing time gets this

Your version is 100% compatible with IE, but run's into trouble with Firefox. And neither let's me get the framing I'd like to. I want to bump the content a bit away from the side bars.

In Firefox links will go dead if they are level with content in the main div.

quite probably, I didn't test it to death. probably needs the z-index bringing up, Yes I know z-index should only work with absolute elements by rights, but in reality all browsers seem to apply it to all elements.

the framing should only be a matter of adjusting the left and right padding of "main"

I just did it to show that absolute positioning is very rarely needed and will often cause problems when you are first getting to grips with CSS.

Alright the z-index worked wonders but I can't get the padding to respond. Also after pasting in an article I found a new problem

http://aeuzent.cjb.cc/msl.html

having the <div class="content"> in there will have messed that up because there isn't a .content defined in the style sheet.

I looks like it's working perfectly now. Unless you can think of any other polish work I'd need to do.

http://aeuzent.cjb.cc/msl.html

Thanks for the help

you probably just need to style the text and headers etc and don't forget alt attributes on images