[Tfug] simple CSS question

[Paul Scott]

John Gruenenfelder wrote:

>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.
>  
>
I use position:absolute in the class for all my <div>'s.  These 
measurements are actually relative to the whole page or any other <div> 
in which they are contained.

Paul Scott