web admin needs a little help

[mr. k]

ok thanks, im new to the whole web site administration/building process, and any help i can get here would be great. i just made up a website a few weeks ago with some basic css and xhtml, and don't even bother going if you still browse with internet explorer mac, as a browser it handles standards like a fat kid handles excercise.
my css is still clean, that is i haven't enabled many hacks to get it up and working. i have tested it in mozilla, mozilla firebird, camino, and safari. it works in mozilla and firebird and safari, but camino has troubles rendering it.
here is the page : http://rain.prohosting.com/kjao/
and here is my css : http://rain.prohosting.com/kjao/source/style.css
any critiques, tips etc you have would be great.

and the second issue i have had is that i can't get my SMC barricade wireless router to forward port 80 http correctly. from within my lan going to my website hosted on my imac works fine, but coming through the router it hasnt. i put it up on a free hosting site, why not they give you 50mb storage and 4gb transfer for free, but was looking to host locally. the internet sharing works just fine on my imac, and the router forwards other ports (i run a carracho server which needs ports forwarded and it works great) but i have run into troubles with port 80... its probably some stupid little thing i haven't been able to figure out, and any help with that would be great.
thanks, my message got a little long winded, but im going to say any help would be great just one more time.

 

[mr. k]

oh and i have another little problem, it's in my css. when i have a certain element, say p { color : black; } and don't declare a background color, validating with w3c gives me an warning. also when i specify a bg color but no color. when i set it to (background)color : inherit the background gets all wrong, and i can't just leave it as (background)color : ;. there's gotta be a way to work around these warnings, can anyone help me here?

 

[toast]

The warnings do not impeach validation. Your CSS can be valid even though there are warnings in your file.

Use background-color: transparent to get around this warning problem. Alway give a text color. I recommend using color: #000 just to be sure all txt is visible on your page (I suppose the page is not black itself).

 

[mr. k]

thanks toast, thats what i was looking for. and not that the warnings kept me from puttin up the valid css image, but im just a little anal about that kind of thing. why not have it perfect ;^)
and what is #000 in hex, black? or does that mean no color? where i don't wish to specify color i just kept color : inherit;, for some reason background-color : inherit ; made the static positioned items over the blue bg have a gray bg...