How do I move my menu to the left?

Somebody else may be able to be a bit more helpful, but I took a look at the page and there are a number of problems with it that make it very hard to make sensible modifications.

Firstly, your front page alone has 40 errors and a dozen warnings. You really need to sort those out or you’re just going to pile problem upon problem as browsers try to work out what you’re trying to do.

Secondly you’re using rows and rows of non-breaking spaces, presumably for positioning purposes. Whilst you’re doing that, I don’t think it’s practical to use more recognised methods. The results are always going to be unpredictable – in the long term if not in the short.

I’m sorry I can’t be more helpful.

Cheers

PAE

any other practical suggestions? please help!

I’m sorry but it is beyond the scope of these forums to teach basic markup and CSS. Try asking on a general webmaster forum. I’d also recommend using Firefox with the Firebug add-on for this kind of CSS work.
https://getfirebug.com/

Will moving my menu to the left (the original question) require basic markup and CSS? If its a simple change to the coding (as I’ve experience was the case before with my other forum questions), can someone please advise? That’s all I’m interested in doing for now. Thanks so much!

Yes. However, as we’re trying to explain to you, your markup is so defective the page is un-fixable.

In standards compliant browsers you have text overwriting bits of images that are supposed to be acting as borders, you have a footer that is overwriting the background image that is supposed to contain it, you have form input text boxes that overrun their borders, text that overwrites it’s own heading in the sidebar and many other difficulties.

None of these problems can be overcome without correcting the errors in the markup.

We’d love to help you, but you need to get some of the basics right first in order to allow us to do so.

PAE