I'm very new to website development, and don't know much about HTML or CSS. I do know however that the template that I've chosen to use from my hosting site is problematic on IE8, but I don't know how to fix it. The main content box where the page's text goes is slightly more to the left than centered. I don't know how to get it to match the other borders on the page.
Can someone please tell me how I can fix the width and overall page dimensions on my website?
Website: PineBarrensAnimals.com
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="{%MetaCharset%}" />
<meta name="description" content="{%MetaDescription%}" />
<meta name="keywords" content="{%MetaKeywords%}" />
<title>{%MetaTitle%}</title>
<style>
html, body {
height: 100%;
padding-top:10px;
margin:10px;
}
body {
background: #3F3F3F url("images/tile.jpg");
background-position: top center;
font-family: "Arial";
font-size: 11px;
color:#FFFFFF;
padding:0px;
margin:0px;
}
a, a:link {
text-decoration: underline;
color:#FFF;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color:#FFF;
}
a:active {
text-decoration: underline;
color:#FFF;
}
#container {
width: 774px;
height: auto !important;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom:0px;
}
#core_header {
width: 762px;;
height: 302px;
background: url(images/header.gif);
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
position:relative;
left:7px;
}
#header_text
{
position:relative;
right:420px;
top:40px;
font-size:16pt;
float:right;
font-weight:bold;
}
#header_text span {
font-size: 12pt;
}
img
{
margin:5px;
}
#core_left {
margin: 0;
width: 774px;
height:auto;
}
#core_right {
margin: 0;
float: left;
width:750px;
min-height:100%;
height:auto !important;
height:100%;
background: #4D7942;
color:#000;
margin-left:10px;
border-left: 4px solid #FFF;
border-right: 4px solid #FFF;
}
.content-box
{
padding:6px;
height:auto !important;
float:left;
width: 720px;
margin-bottom:10px;
font-family: "Arial";
font-size: 11px;
color:#FFF;
margin-left:10px;
}
.tumb
{
float: left;
margin-right:5px;
padding:0px;
}
.pagination
{
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
text-align:center;
}
#footer {
width:758px;
background: url(images/footer.gif) bottom center no-repeat;
text-align: center;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
padding:0px;
height:26px;
clear:both;
position:relative;
left:2px;
}
#footer2
{
clear:both;
height:10px;
background: url(images/footer.jpg);
width:758px;
margin-left:10px;
}
h2
{
font-family: "Verdana", Lucida Handwriting, sans-serif;
font-size:18px;
height:25px;
}
h3
{
font-family: "Verdana", Lucida Handwriting, sans-serif;
font-size:15px;
height:22px;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
color:#FFF;
width:718px;
background: url(images/content_header.jpg) bottom left repeat-x;
margin-bottom:5px;
font-weight:bold;
}
h4
{
font-family: "Verdana", Lucida Handwriting, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
}
#navcontainer li {
color:#FFF;
display:inline;
position:relative;
height:25px;
width:100px;
padding-left: 55px;
padding-top:20px;
top:19px;
}
#navcontainer ul {
margin:0px;
padding: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
width: 774px;
list-style-type: none;
background: url("images/menu_bg.gif");
height:60px;
}
#navcontainer a, #navcontainer a:visited {
display:inline;
color:#FFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-family:Arial;
font-size:13px;
}
#navcontainer a:hover {
margin:0px;
color:#FFF;
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom:2px solid #FFF;
}
div#sth {
text-align: center;
padding-top: 10px;
}
div#sth span {
margin: 0 auto;
}
</style>
<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
#footer
{
left:1px;
}
#core_right
{
height:300px;
margin-left:5px;
}
.content-box
{
margin-left:5px;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="core_header">
<div id="header_text">{%WebsiteName%}<br /><span>{%WebsiteSlogan%}</span></div>
</div>
<div id="core_container">
<div id="core_container2">
<div id="core_left">
<div id="navcontainer">
<ul>
{%menu_start=1%}
<li><a href="{%menu_href%}">{%menu_display%}</a></li>
{%menu_end=1%}
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="core_right"><!-- Your content goes here -->
<div class="content-box">
<h3>{%name%}</h3>
{%content%}</div>
<!-- End of content --></div>
</div>
<div id="footer2"> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer"> </div>
<div id="sth"><span>{%WebsiteFooter%}</span></div>
<br />
</body>
</html>
Thank you, - Danny B