Hi Cyber!
Thanks for the reply. I have gone in and streamlined the code as much as I could. I am using wordpress and am still getting used to the modular system in how it works. The existing theme I am using had the "Latest Posts" "Categories" and "Tags" surrounded by H3 tags rather then LI and the items inside them as LI. I am not exactly sure why but when I changed it out things didn’t show up correctly. Nevertheless the final design won’t have those sections at all. I plan to dig more to figure it out though. In addition, I am a novice CSS coder so anyhelp in streamlining and explaining how things work is much appreciated.
All that said, the solution was fixing the images. I had them a little off (the background was smaller then the rest).
Thanks again for your help,