Div positioning? (too much white space) [Archive]

Ani[|]al

11-23-2011, 07:18 PM

Hi all thanks for reading i am having a bit of a issue with my collage work there is a large amount of white space to the top right of my images and there is also a bit of unnessacery white space to the top left also but not as much (marked in RED )

i have been working on this issue for about 3 hours and i am completly stuck sorry if this is a simple question but i am still in my first month of learning html/css

How site should look

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/b-master/homepagemockup.jpg

How it currenlty looks

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/b-master/whitesparearea.png

Site link (http://www.heliparis.webspace.virginmedia.com/)

HTML Code

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript">
</script>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>John Leslie | Garden Design</title>
<link href="css/garden.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
h5 {
color: #666;
}
h2 {
font-size: 20px;
color: #A89C7B;
}
a:active {
color: #9C0;
}
h3 {
color: #999;
}
h4 {
color: #A89C7B;
}
h6 {
color: #999;
}
h1 {
color: #A89C7B;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>

<div class="container">
<div class="sidebar1"></div>
<div class="content">
<div class="img"> <img src="images/home_main-01.jpg" alt="" width="282" height="405" align="left" />

<div class="desc">
</div>
</div>
<div class="img"> <a href="index.html"><img src="images/grdns_country_01.jpg" alt="" width="124" height="122" /></a>

<div class="desc">
<h4>GARDENS</h4>
<h5>Click for details</h5>
</div>
</div>
<div class="img"> <a href="index.html"><img src="images/feat_thm_water.jpg" alt="" width="124" height="122" /></a>

<div class="desc">
<h4>WATER</h4>
<h5>Click for details</h5>
</div>
</div>
<div class="img"> <a href="index.html"><img src="images/feat_thm_wood.jpg" alt="" width="124" height="122" /></a>

<div class="desc">
<h4>WOOD</h4>
<h5>Click for details</h5>
</div>
</div>
<div class="img"> <a href="index.html"><img src="images/feat_thm_general.jpg" alt="" width="124" height="122" /></a>

<div class="desc">
<h4>GENERAL</h4>
<h5>Click for details</h5>
</div>
</div>
<div class="maincontent">
<h2>JOHN LESLIE GARDENS</h2>
<p> </p>
<p>A complete redesign of the clients website.<br />
Design, creation and implementation of a website, containing a set of categorised online 'gallery' sections to showcase the clients past work in designing and constructing water features, woodwork, </p>
<p>stonework and completely landscaped gardens.</p>
<p><br />
Provide a professional brochure site with an easy to navigate menu system to help browse through a very high volume of photographs showing various examples of the clients work.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sidebar2"><br />

<p><a href="index.html">Home</a></p>
<p><a href="Site/gallery.html">Gallerys</a></p>
<p><a href="Site/features.html">Features</a></p>
<p><a href="Site/about.html">About Us</a></p>
<p><a href="Site/contact.html">Contact Us</a></p>

</div>
<div class="footer">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

CSS Code

@charset "utf-8";
body {
font: 100%/1.4 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
padding: 0;
color: #666;
}

ul, ol, dl {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, P {/* Htag padding */
margin-top: 0px;
padding-right: 15px;
padding-left: 15px;
color: #999;
margin-bottom: 0px;
clear: both;
}
/* Start of imgage center layout */

div.img
{
margin:2px;
/* [disabled]border:1px solid #0000ff; */
height:inherit;
width:auto;
float:left;
text-align:center;
}
div.img img
{
display:inline;
margin:3px;
/* [disabled]border:1px solid #ffffff; */
width: auto;
clear: both;
}
div.img a:hover img
{
/* [disabled]border:1px solid #0000ff; */
}
div.desc
{
text-align:center;
font-weight:normal;
width:auto;
margin:2px;
/* [disabled]clear: both; */
}
/* End of imgage center layout */

a:link {
color:#FFF;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: auto;
padding-left: 15px;
}

a:visited {
color: #CCC;
text-decoration: underline;
}

a:hover, a:active, a:focus {
text-decoration: blink;
color: #9C0;
font-size: 100%;
line-height: inherit;
/* [disabled]font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; */
}

.container {
width: 80%;
max-width: 1260px;
min-width: 780px;
background: #FFF;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: hidden;
}

.sidebar1 {
float: left;
width: 20%;
height: 700px;
background-image: url(../images/left_panel.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

.content {
padding: 0px 0;
width: 60%;
float: left;
color: #666;
}

.maincontent {
clear: both;

}
.sidebar2 {
float: left;
width: 20%;
height: 700px;
background-image: url(../images/right_panel.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
color: #CCC;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
/* [disabled]padding-left: 10px; */
}

.content ul, .content ol {
padding: 0 15px 15px 40px;
}
.footer {
padding: 10px 0;
position: relative;/* this gives IE6 hasLayout to properly clear */
clear: both; /* this clear property forces the .container to understand where the columns end and contain them */
border-color: #BDBDBD;
/* [disabled]background-color: #A89C7B; */
}

Thank you very much for looking i hope i have provided all the relivent info i know its only a small issue but its extremly frustrating