Combining sprites & drop down menus was a dismal failure but using the sprite stuff did mean that I was able to remove all the unsightly gaps at the bottom of each page.

Using this CSS in the header
<style type="text/css">
#headerlist{position:relative;}
#headerlist li{margin:0;padding:0;list-style:none;position:absolute;top:0;}
#headerlist li, #navlist a{height:400px;display:block;}

#headertop{left:0px;width:960px;}
#headertop{background:url('images/lcbheader.jpg') 0 0;}
</style>

and then this in the body did the trick
<ul id="headerlist">
<li id="headertop"><a href="testpage.html"></a></li>
</ul>

There's probably a more streamlined way of doing it but anyway it works...

What I couldn't understand was it worked fine when I put the css coding in the header area of each page but if I put it in the css file it didn't? I did try changing the # for . but that didn't make any difference (I've still got it sitting there with dots instead of #'s. It would make sense for it to work & would make it easier to change if there was just 1 instance in the css file rather than each page. Anyway... 2am & way past time for bed.

Check the image url referencing in the style sheet that you made. It may need one ../ or two ../../ depending on where the images are in reference to the style sheet.

Thanks Rolly, I knew it had to be something basic... now revealling to the world my level of expertise in these matters... below basic!

It's all good. I was where your at not to long ago. I received help from others on this form and now I'm still here. Made a lot of new friends that I know better then some of my own relatives. Welcome to the CC family.

Thanks heaps uncle Rolly!
I've found your progrower sites especially helpful. Hopefully I can do likewise as I learn a bit more. I've been a bit slow but it's been good learning all the nuts & bolts rather than relying on someone else's template.

Robbie, are you in uk, just i need some stationery and rubber stamps making

Hey Viv, sorry for the slow reply... Friday/Saturday (till evening) I'm usually off-line.
I'm over in the wonderful land of OZ- family (on mum's side) moved out here from England back in the 1920's early 30's.

I could do stamps up at cost for you but the post would probably kill any difference from what it would cost over there.

What I could do though is if you had a shop over there that can make stamps up for you & you knew what size etc you needed I could do up the designs with font/s of your choice & just email you the image files ready to go to take along to your local stamp shop.

It's an option I'll be offering at a nominal cost compared with supplying actual stamps for those that either live overseas or want the convenience of a nearby shop without sacrificing some design options & flexibility that I can offer.

For you & the other guys on the forum here it will be a no charge service and for anyone here in Australia that wants physical stamps I'll do it at cost (can't get cheaper than that without killing myself) - as a thankyou for all the help you guys are giving each day.

I'm a bit lost on this one even after searching the forums...
I have a really basic contact form set up on my contact page.

In the form builder I have all the upload settings apparently right with the initial host folder set as "\" - I don't know if that would make any difference to the end result as the files are uploading to the right place which is the same directory as the html page the form is on.

In the form settings after form settings it redirects to contactus_thanks.html which is working.

In the advanced tab, the form processing is set to use PHP script (Linux servers) - I have no idea about this - operating on Telstra's Bigpond.com for those of you here in Australia - the PDF help file didn't go beyond the Form Submission page.

Down the bottom of the PDF file on page 29 it talks about setting up a Database - on my current plan I don't have access to an SQL database. Is this going to mess everything up?

I copy/paste the code where it needs to go.

Everything uploads to where it should & the form appears nicely on the page but when I hit the Submit button all I get is the dreaded 403 message...

I do believe that's a permission issue.
I think 755 for folders and 644 for files is correct.

Sorry to sound dumb but where are the permissions (?) set?