>   
    >   I'm guessing from the look of the page that you have 
    >   your solution.  Is that true?
    >   --
    >   Roger Roelofs
    >   
    >   ________________________________________________________

Well, the solution was to hack together a separate page, using table based
layout.  It was fast and it worked for today's deployment.

The main problem stems from the modular design of the forms... There was a
server-side include for the login form,and another server-side include for
the membership form. Both shared the same CSS.  They were included one after
another, which meant that I couldn't just stick the login form inside the
div for the membership form, as someone else suggested.

I had to deliver... So I did.  Table based layout allowed me to deliver and
make client happy.  I am not happy however, because I still have a
fundamental misunderstanding of how CSS can make my life better when I
couldn't accomplish what I needed to, efficiently.  As I am sure the elites
here will point out, it's certainly all my fault.

In the client's defense, the request sat in my inbox for two days, while I
had to put out other fires.  But seriously, clients should not be told they
have to wait for days, for a relatively minor layout change on ONE page.
With tables it was easy, with CSS it would have been hard.  And since I am
still new at CSS, I don't know how I could have anticipated this type of
change and completed it in an efficient way anyway.  It's a whole other
language, and I'm failing miserably at it because I wear so many hats, I
don't have time to become an expert.

So yeah, I reverted to tables.  I'm so tired of fighting with CSS, browser
differences, and a much lower productivity rate than I used to have, that at
this point I'm starting not to care.  I thought I had planned out the css on
this site well enough to be able to institute changes fairly easily, and I
was horribly wrong.  CSS is killing my business... The smaller the shop, the
more it's about "DELIVER".  I had to deliver...and for the other sites I'm
building, the situation is no different.  I would love to do the
csszengarden thing, but I also need to feed my family.

Sorry for the rant... I'm tired and disillusioned.

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