The Dink Network

Right, here: I've updated your CSS for you. Not perfect, but it's about the best thing that could be done without rewriting your entire page.

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html
{
height: 100%;
}

body
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: #ffffff;
color: #000000;
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Tahoma", sans-serif;
height: 100%;
font-size: smaller;
}

div#content
{
margin: 2em auto;
border: 1px solid gray;
padding: 1em;
text-align: center;
}

div.newsitem
{
border: 1px solid black;
margin: auto auto 2em auto;
padding: .5em;
width: 75%;
text-align: left;
}

div.newsheader
{
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}

div.newsheader h2
{
display: inline;
font-size: inherit;
font-style: italic;
font-weight: bold;
padding-left: .5em;
}

div.date
{
font-size: smaller;
}

div.newscontent
{
padding-top: 1em;
}

div#imageDescription
{
font-style: italic;
}

a
{
text-decoration: none;
}
a:link
{
color: #B30820;
}
a:hover
{
color: #D87E8B;
}
a:visited
{
color: #B30820;
}

div#menu
{
position: fixed;
width: 20%;
height: 96%;
border-right: 2px ridge gray;
border-bottom: 2px ridge gray;
padding: 2% 4% 1.9em 2%;
background-color: #eee;
overflow: scroll;
}

div#mainwindow
{
position: absolute;
padding-top: 2em;
margin-left: 26%;
width: 71%;
padding-left: 1em;
padding-right: 1em;
text-align: center;
/*border: 1px solid red; Border for design purposes only, to see how the divs

behave */
}

div.imageDescription
{
padding-bottom: 3em;
}

fieldset.person
{
margin-top: 1em;
border: 2px ridge #ddd;
}

fieldset.person legend
{
background-color: #fafafa;
border-right: 2px solid gray;
border-bottom: 2px solid gray;
border-top: 1px solid #ddd;
border-left: 1px solid #ddd;
padding: 2px;
}

fieldset.person ul
{
margin-bottom: 1em;
}

div#visibilityControl
{
float: right;

}

div#displayControl
{
float:left;
position: fixed;
border-right: 2px ridge gray;
border-bottom: 2px ridge gray;
padding: 1em;
background-color: #eee;
}