installing templates

How do I center everything? My blog is aligned to the left and it would look better centered.

@scooterchickdotnet: URL? schooterchick.net gives a 404 error.
@sushubh: Good race and a good show from JB even though he is still 9 secs off MS pace. A little quite by JPM from the press conference (that you may not have heard), very funny … he is such a sore looser.

did you spell it like I did ? or like you did in your post? there is no H in it…
https://www.scooterchick.net

Ah, that was it. Never noticed the H in there ??

scooterchick, you can center it all by a)using a different stylesheet, or b) changing the stylesheet, especially the part that relates to the alginment/float of the rap id.

I tried adding an align command to this:
#rap{
width:750px;
padding:0;
margin:0;}
but it didn’t work and I’m not sure what the command really should have been.
I’ve tried everything I can find online so far and all it will do is center the text in my blog entry and not the entire blog itself.

you have border, padding, margin, and then you have float. It is these properties that position a css element. Look for tutotials on CSS positioning.
For a beginner, I think its best to find a CSS stylesheet that most closely resembles what you need, and then changing things from there. So find a center justified stylesheet to begin with, and start playing around ??

2fargon:
Well I thought this was the style sheet that was the closest… I couldn’t tell from the screenshot that it wasn’t centered.
nsxpower:
I’m supposed to add all of that?
I’ve been looking at tutorials on this for 90 minutes and I’ve tried every thing I could find and none of it has worked right.

Pls, see my edit above.

This is browser dependant to some extent. Some versions of IE (mainly 5.5) even manage to screw up a simple matter like putting the div dead center. I use
margin 0 auto; . Hope that is the right way to put in code.

“My way” works in IE 6, FF, Opera and Safari … fails in IE 5.5 and below.

Oh I see. That’s simple the. Just forget half your audience.

@anon: if half your audience is really using IE5.5 I feel sorry for you. Rather than pandering to them maybe you should encourage them to get an up to date browser.

nsxpower you have me CLOSE!
I’ll leave the blog as is so you can see what happened.
The menu and one of the footers isn’t centered…. but its CLOSE.
I’ll fool with it a bit and see if I can figure out that part.

Thanks a bunch! I’m at work now so I don’t think I can get in and do any editing from here but I will try it in the morning to see how it works. TIA!!