I don't understand how to make divs at all..., Can someone help me make one? Options

[gotryce22]

I'm new to this forum, and I read the pinned topics, but I don't understand a single thing they say. I want to make a page that has a pic of my choice as the background, my "About Me" info towards the right of the page, links towards the left of the page and maybe a flash from myflashfetish.com or something to the bottom of the links. If this isn't too much to ask, can someone help me with this?

[*SinfullySweet*]

LOL. Okay, the overflow tells the div content wether you want the div to scroll or not. For example.

http://www.createblog.com/layouts/preview.php?id=17980
Do you see the main content area? It has a scrollbox. To do that, you add overflow:auto, and you have to define your height. This means that the height is defined. For example. If you make the height of the div 200px, and make the overflow:auto, this means the div heigh will never get larger than 200px in height, and will inflate a scollbar as you add more content.

http://www.createblog.com/layouts/code.php?id=18677
Do you see the content area in this div? The content does not have a defined height, which wont make it have a scrollbox. I set the height attribute to height:auto (meaning when you add more content, and more text, the div will continue to get larger and larger, and will never have a scrollbox) To do this, you add overflow-x:hidden.

Now for the z-index.
The z-index basically tells the browser which div you to appear ontop of which div.

For example. Your div image should be set to z-index:0 (this means the div will appear under all other divs) Now, for your content div. You should add z-index:1. This means your content div will appear ontop of your image div.