positioning and border color of divs in IE5.x

[giuseppe craparotta]

Hello,
again thanks again to those helping me / that have helped me already.
here finally the address of my first home page: [url]www.giuseppecraparotta.it[/url] ,
showing the web page of my first client.
I made a massive use of absolutely positioned boxes. I'd say it was
addictive...
Maybe someone knows how I can hamper the border surrounding the female smile
pictures from appearing black on IE5.0. Why does that happen? I want the border
white... Interesting that the border appears black also in the wysiwyg view of
Dreamweaver. Anybody has the solution of this "noir" mistery? :-)

Please feel free to make comments on the page, concerning the technical part
and not the design. I already know you'll find a lot of mistakes (Murray, r u
there? ;-) ) and I'm prepared to the cold shower of your excellent crytical
sense.
I already know that the page is too heavy for 56k modems. I'm thinking about
how to make it lighter, although it seems hard.
I might decide to give you a present to show my gratitude!

ciao,
Giuseppe, Rome

[giuseppe craparotta]

Hello,
again thanks again to those helping me / that have helped me already.
here finally the address of my first home page: [url]www.giuseppecraparotta.it[/url] ,
showing the web page of my first client.
I made a massive use of absolutely positioned boxes. I'd say it was
addictive...
Maybe someone knows how I can hamper the border surrounding the female smile
pictures from appearing black on IE5.0. Why does that happen? I want the border
white... Interesting that the border appears black also in the wysiwyg view of
Dreamweaver. Anybody has the solution of this "noir" mistery? :-)

Please feel free to make comments on the page, concerning the technical part
and not the design. I already know you'll find a lot of mistakes (Murray, r u
there? ;-) ) and I'm prepared to the cold shower of your excellent crytical
sense.
I already know that the page is too heavy for 56k modems. I'm thinking about
how to make it lighter, although it seems hard.
I might decide to give you a present to show my gratitude!

ciao,
Giuseppe, Rome

[LazyMoon]

The border appears black because of an error in your CSS. Since you are
specifying the border property twice, most browsers will disregard the previous
property for the new one.

Instead of writing:
border:#FFFFFF; border:solid;

As you did, I suggest you shorten it to:
border: solid 3px #FFFFFF;

[LazyMoon]

Also, your markup is a little too congested. You can make your page smaller by
using HTML tags instead of styling paragraphs.

For example, you could replace:
<p style="font-size:18px; font-weight:bold;">Lo studio</p>

With:
<h2>Lo studio</h2>

And use the CSS:

[i]h2 {
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
}[\i]

This also helps make your site easier to navigate for people with screen
readers.

If I where you, I would replace your pixel sizing with 'ems' and percentages,
as well remove all the images used as background images and instead use CSS to
apply those to the DIV's instead.

Finally, always make sure you validate your CSS and (X)HTML;
[url]http://validator.w3.org/[/url]
[url]http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/[/url]