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I'd recommend first forgetting that absolute positioning even exists so that 
you aren't tempted to use it again!  To tell you the truth, I have probably 
only used it once on the last 10 sites I have built.  At best it's a 
specialty purpose tool, not a general use tool.

But - to move beyond "the layer age" to "best practice", you will have to 
study some HTML and CSS.  That may take a while for you.  In the meantime, 
you might consider using tables - they work, and while not best practice, 
they certainly won't get you into the same mess that absolute positioning 
does.

To replace absolute positioning as a primary layout methodology, you will 
have to familiarize yourself with -

1.  The normal flow of the page
2.  CSS floats, and how to clear them
3.  Use of margins and padding to precisely locate content on your page

Those are the three workhorse concepts you need to replace 'layers'.

Read this to begin with - then use Google to flesh out the details of the 
first two bullets above -

http://apptools.com/examples/pagelayout101.php


-- 
Murray