HELP ME!!!! MY XANGA SKIN IS A MESS, need to organize and fix my skin! Options

[serene darkness]

please help me!! i sound desperate i know...
but ive been working on a xanga skin for 2 days,
and i am so HTML illiterate...im a self learner, and
this is frustrating me!


I STARTED OVER FROM SCRATCH....i had one here before,
and it was a combo of a few ideas that i really messed up...
so i did my own...

now im having a problem with getting my profile module to be placed...
its clear up at the top and i have no clue why...you can barely see it...and it repeats itself in the xanga preview...UGGGGHHHHH

please help!!!




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This post has been edited by serene darkness: Jan 1 2005, 05:27 PM