superspiker

@nuclearmoose
Thank you for your posts and consideration,
I have not done any of the coding on my site. I used a program that generated a generic template that I customized.
Do you think its a better idea to start from sratch? Should I code the site myself? My hesitations about doing this are do to my lack of coding experience. Therfore I thought that the template method would be good for me cause all the coding was already done. However it seems that I still have ended up doing a moderate amount of coding within the template anyway. I am totally willing to take the time to learn how to code, however I have no idea where to even start.
I know there are a ton of tutorials on web design and CSS and the like but what do you do first? CSS? How do you know when and how to use the appropriate tags? All the tutorial sites I went to usually had conflicting opinions. It seemed complicated.
Any recommended places to start.? I would be looking to create a robust site that uses CSS and could be flexable enough to adopt new standards.
Thank you, I really apreciate the positive response from you. It keeps my faith alive.
Joe.

Can you elaborate? I am about to show my level of understanding your post by asking what a div is? Yeah, yeah, yeah… go ahead and flame ?? I am somewhat new to all this. I do understand more than the average Joe (pardon my pun) but I would really apreciate a what you mean in regards to mixing tables and divs.
Thanx
Joe.

I just had a small chat with Matt about this issue. He mentioned that the sidebar is absoultly positioned using CSS. He didn’t say why its done that way (I’m sure there is a good reason) or how to fix it. He said people here on the forums would be willing to help me with CSS related issues.
I dont imagine that this is too difficult as I have seen other sites intergrate wordpress.
Thanks again for any help.
Joe.

Hmmm…
Thanks for the reply Podz, however it seems like the solution should be much simpler than the one you provided.
Allow me to explain in greater detail.
I use Dreamweaver MX to create my site and every page within my site will be based off a Dreamweaver template file (.dwt). So the WordPress index.php page obiously will use the template in effort to maintain constistancy throughout the site. So I did what seemed to make sence to me. I copied the contents of index.php from WordPress into the center table of the template file.
Theoretically this should work but the sidebar is detached from the rest of WordPress. The sidebar is way on the right side of the page. I am very confused about why this is happening.
What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way to handle what I want? I have seen many sites that have done the exact same thing I am trying to acomplish.
Thank you for your pateince and understanding as I am fairly new to all of this.
Thanx,
Joe.