WE DID IT GANG

gahh... rghghg.... thanks to the help of friend eelleech... i have marginally conquered the css... i still have so much to learn i am both in anguish and interested
(and by "thanks to the help of my pal" i mean they did all the work and wrote the code for me and i tinkered around with it for a really long time to see if i could figure out how i could make it do things, unsuccessfully)