Positioning is off Options

[rayyyy]

I have been trying to do this layout all day and for the life of me I can't figure out what's wrong..

Everything is backwards. Where I want something to appear several pixels from the left it goes half way across the page but it works perfectly if i go from the right rather then the left.

or

I'm trying to position my news 160px from the top but it went to the bottom of my page. I set it to 0 and it still doesn't reach the top of my page.

CODE

<?php include('header.php'); ?>
<div style="position:absolute;background-color:#ffffff; right: 342px; top:0px; width:494px;border= 1px solid #000000; overflow: auto; overflow-x: hidden;">
<div class="content">

<?PHP
$number=5;
$template="Lay1";
include("/home/trulysel/public_html/cutenews/show_news.php");
?>

<?php include('footer.php'); ?>

thats the code.

here's the site

click here

help?

[HeartOfPandora]

Take a break, grab some toast... Seriously, stop looking at the code for a while an then come back haha.

Most of what needs to be fixed is just a bunch of alt tags - skip those for now and just fix the other problems. After that, revalidate and all that should be left to do is the alt tags. Personally I only ever fill those with alt="rabble" or something stupid that I can copypasta to make the whole process take like 5 minutes.

I think the biggest problem with you source is that you didn't specify a doctype so your browser probably defaulted to one that isn't going to parse correctly with some of the codes you have. Trust me, specifying a doctype is extremely important and can make, or in this case, break a layout.