I have seen many people's sources and some people use div, rather than tables, what do you think? What is div anyway?

Theres lots of tutorials on divs, here are some.

http://www.``````````````/divtutorial.shtml
http://magitek-designs.net/index.php?magitek=tutorials_divs
http://regretless.com/dodo/newworld/ - its under tutorials

Okay, thanks, what does everyone recommend? Tables or Divs?

I think it would depend on what the content is. Though it looks like divs might be easier, so I'd have to say whatever works & looks best.

How would you make a background color for the div tag? This doesn't work for me:

<DIV id="name" background-color:blue" style="position: absolute; bottom: 50px; width:100px; left: 100px;" align=left >WhatWhooaj
</DIV>

I am experiemnting, I want to highlight the divs with a background color so I know what will happen if I change something

this was your code...
<DIV id="name" background-color:blue" style="position: absolute; bottom: 50px; width:100px; left: 100px;" align=left >WhatWhooaj
</DIV>

you put "background-color:blue"" that's for a style tag hehe use bgcolor="blue"

so it should be

<DIV id="name" bgcolor="blue" style="position: absolute; bottom: 50px; width:100px; left: 100px;" align="left">WhatWhooaj
</DIV>

i think...i hope i helped

bgcolor does not work for me.

no, you have it wrong there! the correct coding would be:


<div id="name" style="position: absolute; bottom: 50px; width: 100px; left: 100px; background-color: #0000FF; text-align: left;">WhatWhooaj</div>

If it works it doesnt matter what the code is.