tpl_header.php file additions with html - wheres the css ?

[kobra]

You really need to go over your css and look at some of the css tutorial sites as you have calls/entries that are now allowed

i.e.

#logoWrapper{
	background-image: url(../images/top.gif); align: center;
	background-repeat: no;
	background-color: #000000;
	height:250px;

There is no align center or no for repeat...
backround-repeat: none; is correct I would suspect that you have others
You also have place holders for things that you are not using like the tagline that are taking space up

[kitchen table legs]

Oh, thanks, I will definitely go through some of tutorials.
that background-repeat error was just laziness on my part, i should have done that correctly and put the alignment in the div.

i went ahead and removed the

#tagline {
color:#000000;
font-size: 2em;
text-align : center;
vertical-align: middle;
}

I don't really know what is in the code that is useless, since a lot of it came with the template.

Do you happen to know what would be the place holder beneath the #logowrapper that is created the gap before the #shopnav ?

[kobra]

i went ahead and removed the

#tagline {
color:#000000;
font-size: 2em;
text-align : center;
vertical-align: middle;
}

This only removes the css styling for this div/tag and not the code that is inserting the space for it.
You can use the admin > tools > developers tool kit to find snippetts of text in the files and use Fire Fax and the web developers tools extention and many use the firebug extention to locate and determine what tags are there & where

[gjh42]

Or you can change the tagline declaration to
#tagline {
display: none;
}

"that background-repeat error was just laziness on my part, i should have done that correctly and put the alignment in the div. "
The stylesheet is the correct place for things like specifying alignment - you just need to write it correctly:
text-align: center;