Positioning

How do I get the banner ad at the bottom of my page closer to the photo? Want to elminate the empty space between the two? Stumped.

I don’t see a banner ad at all on that page. The only thing below the photo is the footer.

Sorry…here is code. Had put it up online, but was not happy with it…


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#nav li:hover li a,
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#nav li li:hover a,
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The space above the banner image is caused by the 70px top and bottom padding of #header. Changing to padding:70px 0 0; will remove the space completely. The third number controls the bottom padding, so if you want 20px space above the image it would be padding: 70px 0 20px;

#header {
    width: 990px;
    text-align: center;
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 70px 0 0;
    color: black;
}

Thanks Victor…did the trick. Learned something new today. Merry Christmas.