Position absolute everywhere in custom theme

Can you give us some specific examples of what you want to accomplish? Like I want to remove the absolute positioning from this specific div id. I don;t think there is going to be a “quickest” way. But we can help figure out the slow, plodding way. ??

It does look like a mess, someone does not know hot to use CSS or style sheets. I’d tell them that you need to start over with the skin!

I need the footer to adjust with the varying amounts of content first. Then I’ll have a great starting point. By the way, the footer is at least three separate elements as well.
The more I go through this the more I find wrong. Client just added content to What We Do > Practice Areas > Healthcare and it’s just spilling over everything.
THANKS for the fast reply!!!

Okay, the first thing we need to do is remove this wacky img tag placed right inside the container div.

On this page view the source: https://0002dk4.wcomhost.com/wordpress2/healthcare/
Line #94 reads:
<img class=”g” src=”../wp-content/themes/layout/img/footer.jpg” />

That needs to be removed. You can see it is absolutely positioned 800px from the top. This is literally the worst site design I have ever laid eyes on. I mean it looks OK, but it’s formatting….

Ok, I was typing while reading through the code. We can’t start with the footer, though understanding it is key to what is wrong. You are going to have to start at the header and work down. With everything positioned this way, the content above is not pushing the footer down.

There are a block of images in the <header>, 6 of them. They are all absolutely positioned, and they make up 90% of the “content” on the site. They all need to be removed. And once they are gone, the whole site is bare.

You can’t do this while the site is live. Or are you working on a copy? I would make a copy of the site and put it in a subdirectory. That way you can leave the site live, while you build a new theme. I am not exaggerating or kidding when I say that this theme needs to be scrapped completely. It is a useless mess. The design is fine, and you can just recreate it using CSS instead of these images. But if it were me, I would want a fresh slate, and I would tell the client that it has to be rebuilt from scratch.

I really inherited a mess here. I told the boss earlier that I wasn’t even sure where to begin with this. I was already putting out other fires at the company so didn’t have a chance to step back and look at this as a whole. Was trying some global fixes which only worked on some pages and not all. Thanks for summing it up for me. I really appreciate the feedback. I was considering just installing a new but basic theme as the site itself is pretty basic and just use a simple custom css plugin to tweak some areas then reupload the content. THANKS AGAIN!!!

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