I'd like to see more of my background... aaand... Options

[nmolsby]

I have the cutest background. But I am not so hot about the layout- the background is full of strawberries dipped in chocolate but the layout is soooo big you can only see the strawberries at the top. I'd like to see more of the background- but still have my text legible.. HELLLLLLLP!!!!

I'd also like to move the left side of the box higher so that 'my blog...' and all that is adjacent to my pic. Not exactly attached to it but so that the pic isn't alone at the very top.

Here is the code that is pasted in About Me. the botom portion is the HTML for a slideshow. I am going to post the entire thing because I don't know the difference right off. I hope it helps.

<style type="text/css">

body {
background-image:url("http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/8613/th613114211no8mh.jpg");
border-color:000000;
border-width:14px;
border-style:transparent;
}

table, tr, td {background-color:transparent; border:none; border-width:0;}

body, div, p, strong, td, .text, .blacktext10, .blacktext12, a.searchlinkSmall, a.searchlinkSmall:link, a.searchlinkSmall:visited { color: FFFFFF; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; }

.orangetext15, .lightbluetext8, .whitetext12, .nametext, .btext, .redtext, .redbtext { color: B70026; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; }

a, a:link, a:visited, a.navbar, a.navbar:link, a.navbar:visited, a.man, a.man:link, a.man:visited, a.redlink, a.redlink:link, a.redlink:visited { color: FFFFFF; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; }

table table table { background-color: 000000; border-width: 6px; border-color: B70026; border-style: solid; } table table table table, table table table td{ border-style:none;}

a:hover, a:active, a.navbar:hover, a.navbar:active, a.man:hover, a.man:active, a.searchlinkSmall:hover, a.searchlinkSmall:active, a.redlink:hover, a.redlink:hover{ color: CCCCCC; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; }
</style>

<style type="text/css">
table table table td { !important;}
span.blacktext12 {
color:transparent;
visibility:visible !important;
background-color:transparent;
background-image:url("http://www.profiletweaks.com/extended/techabstract3.jpg");
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center center;
font-size:0px; letter-spacing:-0.5px;
width:435px; height:75px; display:block !important; }
span.blacktext12 img {display:none; }
</style>

<style type="text/css">
table table table td { !important;}
span.blacktext12 {
color:transparent;
visibility:visible !important;
background-color:transparent;
background-image:url("http://www.profiletweaks.com/extended/1142198601-peopletalk.jpg");
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center center;
font-size:0px; letter-spacing:-0.5px;
width:435px; height:75px; display:block !important; }
span.blacktext12 img {display:none; }
</style>

<style>
a .text
{
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
</style>

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