in my browser but I don't have other browsers to check.

So people with browsers other than IE 6 and IE 5/Mac and Safari can you check this layout and see if it works for you.

http://www.8-media.com/temp/test1.html

I should also note that this is NOT the final design or even close I'm just using these colors so I know what the heck I'm doing here.

another note this is my first css layout :)

looks fine in NS 7.0

You dont want to see it in 4.76 though, its basically just text

looks good in Mozilla (not sure what version... sry)

(edit) Ed, i've noticed that you've been looking around for a lot of info on PHP and other stuff....
you might wanna take a look at www.neowin.net they have a lot of guides that the users made and other varied info sources that are really helpful

good luck and wish me luck.. this PHP thing is new to me....

Here's a rar'd PSD with the screenshots:
http://koobi-studio.com/gf/edScreenShot.rar

You need win rar (http://www.rarlab.com/) to unrar the files.

Good start Ed. Looks cool. My hat is off to you for doing a hybrid CSS layout (I'm working on a full CSS layout for my site. Pain in the ass!)
I tested yours in Mozilla 1.6 for you. Renders fine except that this div shows up as blank white space:

<div id="what" class="tabcontent">
image content
</div>

Hope that helps. :)

yeah I noticed that in some browsers (thanks Bane) but I'm not sure as to how to fix it :/ I'll play around with some settings and see what I can come up with.. I think I have an idea on why it did that but I'm not sure yet.

I just don't know what it is with browsers I went to browsercam.com and tooka screen shot (nice tool). And I was able to fix the tab area by adding a clear tag. But what I don't get is the footer why margin-top doesn't work is there something I need to do or is margin-top not a correct tag?

IE 6 windows - Extends well beyond the right hand side browser window at 800x600 without left and right scroll bars. I would recommend making it fit at 800x600 without the need of scroll bars, but if it is going to go over the edge, scroll bars should be there.