Link & background colour? Options

[anzbex]

Ok i am trying to get my background colour to appear the same as the colour of my image #eac90c i tried a code that worked but stuffed up the image div & nothing i did could fix the position.
My next problem is i am unable to get the nav links to change colour & the link hover?I have put my code & a screenshot here.I am very new at this & this is my first attempt at myspace,i am sorry if these questions have been asked several million times... i did do a search in the forum but couldn't find anything that explained it for me.

Here is an updated screenshot




YAY!!! I THINK I HAVE DONE IT!!!! But i would appreciate if someone could check out my code & see if all is ok as i would like to submit it ;)

CODE

<style>
table table div form {
display:inline !important;
}
.contacttable, .whitetext12, .nametext, .lightbluetext8, .orangetext15, .blacktext12, .btext, .redtext, .redbtext {
display:none;
height:0px;
!important;
visibility:hidden
}
td td td td {
border:0px;
width:0px;
text-align:left;
}
table, td, tr {
padding:0px;
width:;
background-color:transparent
}
table table table {
padding:1px;
height:.01%;
width:100%;
}
table table, table table table table, table, tr, td {
height:0px;
!important;
border:0px;
!important
}
a.text, table div font a, table div div, .navbar font, tr td font {
visibility:hidden;
display:none;
height:0px;
!important;
}
td.text table table {
display:inline;
visibility:visible;
}
table td table tr td.text table {
visibility:hidden;
}
table td table tr td.text table table, table td table tr td.text table table td.text {
visibility:visible;
}
table div div {
visibility:hidden;
!important;
}
table table table table, table table table table td.text, td.text td.text table {
display:none;
}
body div div form {
display:none !important;
}
td td embed, td td embed, td td object {
position:absolute;
top:0px;
right:0px;
width:45px;
}
div div div select {
position:absolute !important;
margin-left:-1000px !important;
left:0px !important;
display:none !important;
}
div div table div {
display:none;
}
div form, .mslogo, div ul {
display:none!important;
}
div div, div td {
background-color:transparent;
background-image:none!important;
}
div.profileWidth {
margin-top: -30px !important;
}
div.profileWidth div {
filter:alpha(opacity=0);
opacity:0.0001
}
div.profileWidth div.clearfix, i i i, div.profileWidth div div {
filter:none;
opacity:0.9999
}
div.profileWidth div.clearfix {
position:relative;
top:30px
}
div div select, div div form {
display:none !important;
}
</style>
<style>

body {
background-color: EAC90C;}

.div {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left:-700px;
top: 90px;
z-index: 0;
}
.box1 {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left:50px;
top: 250px;
z-index:1;
width: 285px;
height: 470px;
overflow: auto;
font: normal Arial 10px;
color:FFFFFF;
font-weight:normal;
line-height:normal;
}
.heading {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left:150px;
top: 230px;
font: normal 14px Anson;
color:FFFFFF;
font-weight:bold;
text-transform: none;
line-height:12px;
}
.nav {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left:-365px;
top: 700px;
z-index:5;
width: 450px;
height: 150px;
overflow: auto;

}
a:active,a:visited,a:link,a{
color:FFFFFF;
font-size:13px;
font-weight:bold;
font-family:anson;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:none;
}
a:hover{
color:FFFFFF;
font-size:14px;
font-weight:bold;
letter-spacing:1px;
font-family:anson;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:none;}

</style>


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<div class="heading">
<center>
About Me
</center>
</div>
<div class="box1">
This is my first ever myspace layout!! Yeah i know pretty boring & simple :/ This box will scroll as you plave your own content in it,as you can see.

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[berrypop90]

You need to put your code in a scrolling codebox!

The layout looks better than before. You might want to think about using a repeating background. I made one for you and coded it:

CODE

body {
background-color: EAC90C;
background-image:url(http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/7854/orngbg2ee4.png);
background-position:top left;
background-repeat:repeat-x;}

Also, your box is a little misaligned. A few pixels to the left would look better.

[anzbex]

You need to put your code in a scrolling codebox!

The layout looks better than before. You might want to think about using a repeating background. I made one for you and coded it:

CODE

body {
background-color: EAC90C;
background-image:url(http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/7854/orngbg2ee4.png);
background-position:top left;
background-repeat:repeat-x;}

Also, your box is a little misaligned. A few pixels to the left would look better.

Box? misaligned? Everything is showing up ok for me in Opera,FF & IE.

Could you tell me a little more about what you are seeing?

Thanks for taking the time to look at my code and amend it,i really appreciate it

[berrypop90]

Well, the misalignment is really only when it scrolls I guess but do you see how the scrollbar is over the white line? That's what I mean, it's nothing big, but those things bother me. lol

[anzbex]

Well, the misalignment is really only when it scrolls I guess but do you see how the scrollbar is over the white line? That's what I mean, it's nothing big, but those things bother me. lol

Thats not showing up for me,the scrollbar is exactly on the line for me.Maybe its the screen size?

[schizo]

Everything looks right for me as well.

I'd go ahead and submit it if that what you're planning to do. It looks really good from the screenshot, so it will most likely be accepted.

[anzbex]

Everything looks right for me as well.

I'd go ahead and submit it if that what you're planning to do. It looks really good from the screenshot, so it will most likely be accepted.

Thanks schizo I must say your tutorials on your site helped me so much !! Easy to understand Ohhh & here is a working preview of it.

Working Preview

[schizo]

Aw, well that's good to know. I'm always afraid I don't explain things well enough.

The only thing I'd fix about the layout before submitting would be the navigation. It comes out of the box a bit in IE. I can't seem to see the error in the coding, though. It might be the font choice. I've never even heard of "anson." Try staying with georgia or times new roman. :)

[anzbex]

Aw, well that's good to know. I'm always afraid I don't explain things well enough.

The only thing I'd fix about the layout before submitting would be the navigation. It comes out of the box a bit in IE. I can't seem to see the error in the coding, though. It might be the font choice. I've never even heard of "anson." Try staying with georgia or times new roman. :)

No you explain things real well
Ohhh bugger lmao i have already submitted it Yep i think it would be the font but thanks for your advice i will in future stick to the basic fonts like georgia & times new roman