http://www.freewebs.com/bethanyonline/

why is the background going all wrong on me?

#content {
background: #000 url(bg.gif) repeat-y;
position: absolute;
top: 210px;
left: 80px;
width: 339px;
height: 500px;
}


anyone?

other than the width being a little too big, I don't see a problem.
Unless it's the background image deal, bg.gif is white and your text is white. I would put background-image:url(bg.gif);