CSS - Can I Have Some Feedback Please

sup friends,my goal with this site:

http://poolghost.com/blargh/index.htm

was to learn about how to make a css layout with no old school html tables..the basic layout template was from some glish.org or something i cant remember....my site is xhtml1.0 valid transitional,see rant below if necessary..i used browser safe colors according w/ some cool chart at w3.org...basically i am looking for any feedback regarding stupidness in my index.htm and all.css file that might cause the site to not work properly/etc. i am used to working with %'s, not widths and heights in this css stuff. in the http://poolghost.com/blargh/all.css file i have commented out some lines that allow you to see the layout in a tabular form, e.g. white borders/boxes, etc.


minor rant:
after hours of work i finally got the stupid thing xhtml 1.0 transitional. i must honestly say i hate all this br with a forwardslash at the end crap. it took me so long to figure out how to fix my br's. also, is there really any point to closing img tags? this all seems so pointless and only makes your html documents larger and more bloated. if there is actually a point to this stuff, please explain, i am very willing to learn..

so any feedback or whatever is welcomed..i spend most time in the c++ forums,thats my thing and im going to be putting c++ source code for my projects on the poolghost site eventually..

peace,--c0ldshadow

http://www.cyclomedia.co.uk/?24

took a couple of days to debug for major browsers, the horizontal version doesnt work in ie (even if you fully merge the CSS). if anyone knows what the problem is there then it'd be good to know. what is interesting is that if you look at all the sub menus in IE and then switch to the horiztontal version they work correctly... i think it's something to do with trying to place an absolutely positioned element outside of a float that is also position:relative! (overflow: visible doesnt help BTW)

the source is overly spread out and commented, eventually i'll produce a more compact source for both versions.

note: the html is the same for the horizontal and vertical versions!

one day i'll update my site to be more blog like, allowing comments for each article... one day!

edit: atricle/article

edit: fixed the IE bug, needed another work around for the general lack of support for the child selector, basically the root menu items need to be floats, but everything below that doesnt.

Hello,

Have decided to use a frames emulation technique that I unearthed on the web (refer to the code for sources), have tested it on IE5 IE6 and FF but not mac. It's at http://uk.theliving.net

Would like some opinions on the code. Anything that looks like a no no. For simplicty I have left all the css code in the document. But even when the lower css sections are removed the technique calls for a fairly large chunk to stay at the top. Anyone know of a better solution that conditionally directs the browser on a per browser basis?Of course to do this you would have to get the order right and all the statements in a perfect flow (Of course the noscript part would need to stay).

Anyhow any feedback on any of the code or slimming it down would be much appreciated.

Gregory