[Tfug] simple CSS question

[John Gruenenfelder]

Hello all.

I've got a simple CSS question that I hope you can help with.  I redesigned
the website for my machine at work (http://bach.as.arizona.edu).  The old one
was ugly and not too useful.  The new one is... still not useful, but easier
to navigate to someplace more useful.  :)

Anyhow, the basic design is based on a template I downloaded at the Open
Source Web Design site.  It's a really simple CSS template.  Simple enough
that I can understand what it's doing.

There are two fairly minor layout issues that I'm having trouble
understanding, due mostly to my limited CSS knowledge.  The site in question
(it's small) is at:
  http://bach.as.arizona.edu/~johng/newsite

If you click on the "Who we Are" link on the navbar, the resulting page is
fairly short.  The bottom bar, where the author/date info is, is not at the
bottom of the window.  This causes the right end of it to pass underneath the
nav bar.  I was hoping that the different "div" areas would be smart enough to
not overlap each other.  Is there any way to fix this?  Note that if you have
a very narrow browser window, the page may be elongated enough that you won't
notice the effect.

The second problem is really minor.  On the main page of the new site there is
a small portrait of J.S. Bach.  When there was less text in the first block
(next to the picture), the horizontal bar separating the next section would go
underneath the picture.  You can reproduce this if you browser window is very
wide.  This problem isn't big, and can be avoided in practice by simply adding
more text in certain areas, but I'd like to know if it can be fixed.

If you need them, the two stylesheets are:
  http://bach.as.arizona.edu/~johng/newsite/globalformatting.css
  http://bach.as.arizona.edu/~johng/newsite/globallayout.css

Thanks for any help!


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