Well, I was not intending to
use your work, but only to learn from it. But I can still appreciate a thing of beauty I see, though I admit I am partially biased because blue is my favorite 'color-family'.
I see you call 'w\idth' an 'Internet Explorer Fix', and that your example in the code-box above shows an error of 2px only. I shall 'google' 'Internet Explorer Fix' to find a definition, and see how many instances it applies to. I will play with w\idth in some home made examples, to see how it works. My experience thus far (keep in mind it is quite short!) has been that the CSS
W3Schools teaches works flawlessly in IE, and that FireFox is prone to 'mess things up' in bad ways, and yet my pal in Norway designs for FireFox and proclaims he suffers from IE messing things up!
Since my frustration is that different browsers seem to interpret CSS in various ways, I have been searching for the Holy Grail, the KeyCode, the Magic Wand of web design... the way to force at least Internet Explorer and FireFox to play nice and 'see' (and therefore 'show') designs the same way. I find that usually the two are willing to agree within a few pixels tolerance if you play with the code long enough, but since time = money in today's world the grail/code/wand I seek is meant to prevent such time consuming delays. I thank you and tip my hat to you for your part in my education, and for your speedy response, sir.
I am always looking for education, and I find that functional examples work better than textbooks, usually. I am pretty good at figuring out how things function when I see them in action. In the past this applied to mechanical things, as my primary employment over the years has been as a machinist, then cnc machinist, and part-time programmer. {cnc = computer numerical control, which uses 'g-code', the language that converts text into motion on a semi-automated cnc milling machine, lathe, tool grinder, etc.} HTML, although I have dabbled in it using wysiwyg like geocities pagebuilder, and Front Page 2000/2003 more recently, now my approach is to hand-code
everything with notepad.exe 'the html editor of champions'!