beginner, background and blog Options

[beckia]

i did everything it told me to do in the tutorial, and the place where i blog is UNDER my background image and will not go ON my background image no matter what pixels i use for "margin top" or "margin left." Here is what i have so far. any help or suggestions?

<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com --><br /><br /><img src=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v12/beckia/miscellaneous/Butterfly.jpg><br /><!-- end code provided by createblog.com --><br /><br /><!-- begin code provided by createblog.com --><br /><div style="<br /><br />width: 1000px;<br />height: 0px;<br />margin-top: 0px;<br />margin-left: 0px;"> <br /><!-- end code provided by createblog.com --><br /><br /><!-- begin code provided by createblog.com --><br /><style type="text/css"><br />.#rblEprops{display:none;}<br />#pnlEnabled table, #htmleditor, #lblTimeZone, #pnlEprops, #rblEprops <br />/* width of the comment page */<br />{width:245px;}<br />.leftmoduletitlebar, .leftmoduleborder, .leftmoduleinterior, table.left, table.left TH, table.left TD, table.navigation, table.footer <br />{display: none;} <br /></style><br /><!-- end code provided by createblog.com --><br /><br /><!-- begin code provided by createblog.com --><br /><style type="text/css"><br />/*Name of Your Skin*/<br />/*by YOU*/<br />body {<br />background-image:url();<br />background-repeat: repeat-y-x;<br />background-color: transparent;<br />scrollbar-face-color: black;<br />scrollbar-shadow-color: black;<br />scrollbar-highlight-color: black;<br />scrollbar-3dlight-color: black;<br />scrollbar-darkshadow-color: black;<br />scrollbar-track-color: black;<br />scrollbar-arrow-color: white;<br />}<br /><br />#rblEprops, #pnlEnabled table, #pnlEprops table { <br />width: auto !important; <br />}<br /><br />table.blogbody {<br />width:200px;<br />font-family: Arial;<br />font-weight: none;<br />font-size: 12pt;<br />color: #ccccff;<br />text-align: justify;<br />padding: 2px;<br />margin-top: 2px;<br />}<br />div.smalltext{<br />width: 10px;<br />padding: 3px;<br />text-align: left;<br />}<br />.caption, .blogheader {<br />width: 380px;<br />padding: 3px;<br />font-family: arial;<br />font-size: 16pt;<br />text-align: center;<br />color: #ccccff;<br />background-color: #ccccff;<br />text-transform: lowercaps;<br />margin-top: 10px;<br />}<br /><br />P, B, I, TD, TH <br />{font-family: FONT; color: #ccccff; font-size: 8pt; }<br />A:link, A:visited, A:active<br />{color:#ccccff; text-decoration:none; font-size:8pt;}<br />a:hover<br />{text-decoration: underline; color:#ccccff; font-size: 8pt; );}<br />b, strong, i, u, {<br />/* edit colors when bold italic underline */<br />font-family: arial;<br />font-size: 8pt;<br />color: #000000;<br />font-weight: bold; <br />text-transform: lowercaps;<br /></style><br /><br /><!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->

-Codebox, please. thanks.

[lovescream]

your width is HUGE.
and your margin-top, margin-left are 0pxs.

[babytt]

Try putting in negative numbers for your margin-top