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]

Personally I always shoot for XHTML 1.0 Strict but I think in your case you're better off with XHTML 1.0 Transitional, however this does cause the validator to see 275 errors 4 warnings... but again, most of those are data errors (ie using & instead of &amp; or not using the required alt tags). You could also go with HTML 4.01 Strict, because I'm assuming you're not really into clean web design, more just presentation.

Also, just a question, why are you using inline styling? It slows down how fast people can access your site as compared to an external stylesheet. When the browser has to load the new CSS for each page instead of once from reference, older computers and dial-up practically asplode because they have to download the same exact CSS a million times.