Some questions from an HTML newbie (I don't often venture out of my VSD comfort zone ):

I've read that BMP image files can cause some browser issues, and I've never seen BMP recommended for web images (just JPEG, GIF and PNG). Could these be part of the problem?

And, is it OK to have absolutely positioned elements within a relatively positioned container?

Okay, so here is the latest. Thank you David for pointing out the open div's (as an amateur I didn't realize a <div class> represented an open <div> - shame on me I know). I've cleaned up the code and have run it through the validator. No errors except alt tags that I haven't set up yet and should have no impact on browser display.

Tom, thanks for pointing out that it displays incorrectly in both browsers. I just updated IE last night and you are right. It's not an issue isolated to Firefox.

Paintbrush, I even took your suggestion and changed the image files to .png's. Still no luck. And, from what I've read online, it is OK to have absolutely position elements in a container based on relative positioning because the absolute position is absolute within that container, but I could have been mislead so I'd love some feedback on that. Paintbrush and Jewelcraft, I too spend some time in VSD but I have found that some of the things I'm trying to accomplish cannot be accomplished there AND some of the "bad" code that David and Tom pointed out in earlier parts of this thread was code that was inserted by VSD not code I wrote myself.

At the end of the day, I've got clean code now and still cannot figure out how to get the positioning correct. The new page and source code has been uploaded to:

www.thinkpawsitivedogsnacks.com/tempindex.html

Any ideas?

let's try changing


to

and go one step at a time

Thanks David. I've posted the new page with the markups you posted here.

I cracked it! I've posted the new page. If you think there's anything that will create problems with my "fix" please let me know. Thank you everyone for all of your help. David, if you have a dog, I'll send you some of our fantastic treats!

I've been accused of being a dog several times ;-) woof!

Glad you got it worked out - looks good!
Nice to know, there's plenty of ol' dogs to help the new pups out around here