hi.
heres teh code (pardon the sloppiness)
<HTML>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
/* trouble comes here */
#hello {position:absolute;top:8em;width:99%;height:17em;p adding:0;margin:0;}
/* trouble hopefully ends here */
#hello {background-image:url(2.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x;}
#yelp{background-image:url(1.gif);height:8em;width:800px;background-repeat:no-repeat;position:relative;top:4em;left:9em;}
p.title{font-family:arial;position:relative;top:19em;left:13em; width:50em;}
p.links{position:relative;top:23em;left:8em;width: 50em;}
p.footer{position:absolute;bottom:0em;font-family:arial; font-size:XX-small;left:48em;}
a:link{color:#24B8BD;font-family:arial;text-decoration:none;}
a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="hello">
<div id="yelp">
</div>
</div>
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</p>
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</body>
</html>