Thanks for the review, Veneficuz. I'm learning CSS on my own, and picking things up as I go. Believe me, I've improved a lot from when I first started playing with CSS, but I'm having some trouble making that final leap to a full layout.
I'm sure I could have the flower be stationary, I do know how to do that, just didn't even think of that. Thanks!
Any suggestions for setting off the active page so viewers know what one they are on? Besides having a page title marker of some sort. The main navigation menu doesn't cover everything since "Art" has 4 subchoices on the page, and I don't have a separate menu for those except there. Similar for "Writings."
I use Dreamweaver to create my sites, and probably added the doctype incorrectly. In fact, I'm pretty sure that is what happened there. I work with a WYSIWYG editor best because I think of my site in graphical terms only, and looking only at the code messes me up. I've tried and while the results were less than stellar, I know I need to work on them more. I am to the point where I don't rely on DWs coding alone, I do go check things out and change and add what I'm looking for instead of just letting the program do it for me.
I'll keep working on things. As you said, what better place to play around with than my own personal site. 
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