Sounds good. Let me know. I'm not in a huge rush.

ND, Daniel, and Andi - if that deal falls through, and you are willing to take payments - I'm looking for a laptop for K-Bug.

Suzi, we could probably work something out, yes.

Thanks, ND. Daniel and Andi have first dibs, which is cool. Just figured I'd toss my name in as a back-up plan.

Hey ND! Sorry, I wandered away.

Yeah, I'm all excited about having to be at your place at 7:30 in the morning....

Sorry, yeah. The time sucks. Just wanted to make sure you got the message.

Next up in the coding saga of my new site...

Ginger (thanks Hon!) sent me a new page with the mailing list box moved to the right as I desired.

Now, I need a tutorial in 'scooching'. I need to move the box down the space of two text lines and to the right so that the left border of the box is aligned with the pointy end of the middle leaf.

Ginger gave me some code for the stylesheet that aligns objects and creates space around them. I'm taking the }s out for fear of affecting the board.

.image_right
vertical-align: top;
padding: 3px;
float: right;
margin: 5px;

Here are my questions:
Do I replace .image_right with a tag for the actual object, or do I need to place the code before/after the previous object's code?

How is 'padding' different from 'margin'?

Do I just fiddle with the numbers (in this case 3px and 5px) to nudge objects in a direction?

.image_right is the name of the class so it has to be in the code for the image. (left caret img class="image_right" src="nameofimage.gif" other attributes right caret)

margins and padding affect different browsers differently, IE6 padding affects margins; firefox it's hard to tell that padding's doing anything (imo); so it's best to play with them both.

I could very well be wrong, but I believe margin is supposed to mean the space between things, five pixels between divs; and padding is the space around things, that is five pixels added to the outside of text within a div (or I could have that entirely backwards). It doesn't really work like that though. So, yeah, fiddle.

As Deena says, margin is outside the element and padding is inside the element.

In the case of the contact box, though, it's inside the div that sets the text width, so it's going to have to be moved out of that div and positioned absolutely, probably. I didn't really do much with the table, which looks like it might have been picked up from somewhere else.

Thanks Ginger. You said it much more clearly.

I went and looked at your source code and I see what Ginger means. It's not quite state-of-the-art, though tables do put things where you want them, usually.