Liz wrote:
> I gave up on the "In Search of the Holy Grail" layout because the anchor
> links didn't work in FireFox. Now I'm trying the "Skidoo Too" 3 column
> layout.  The anchor links work fine but I and am having other problems.  I
> hope someone can help.
>   

If you include the URL to your page, we can. :-)

> Problem 1) 
>
> my left nav include which is a flyout menu ends up being behind the content.
> It shows up but you can read the content through it.  I tried giving it a
> high z index (10) hoping that would help but it didn't.  I want the center
> column to come first for the search engines.  Although I had other problems
> with the "In Search of the Holy Grail" menu, and the center column was first
> there also, my flyout did work there.
>   

Can't tell without seeing the page. You could try giving it a 
ridiculously high z-index (10000), or adding relative positioning to it 
to start a new stacking context. Not sure.

> Problem 2) 
>
> The #masthead has the following:
>
>     border: solid 1px #fff;
>     border-width: 1px 0;
>
> I don't want any border there (or on any part of this layout) but when I
> take out the 1 px border I end up getting a much larger than 1 px space
> above it.  I'm too new to css to understand why this is happening.  How can
> I get rid of the border without having this large space.
>   

Sounds like margin collapsing:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CollapsingMargin

Zoe

-- 
Zoe M. Gillenwater
Design Services Manager
UNC Highway Safety Research Center
http://www.hsrc.unc.edu


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