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I currently have a drop down navbar that is running down into galleries. You really see this in action if you go here http://k-ophotography.smugmug.com/We...aitPhotography and also would like to try to make it fit right into the header I have created(might go smaller for my header haven't decided yet), is this possible?

UPDATE: what I'm referring to isn't the fact that it drops down but rather it drops down into my contact like show here http://k-ophotography.smugmug.com/Other/About-Me/21582062_8XZX2z. In my bio page if you scroll on to "Fine Art" the gallery options "landscape" "Holga" and "Miscellaneous" all run into the content I have in my Bio page. The solution I want is for it not do this maybe by moving my galleries down. Sorry I am not being clear but I am very new to this and I am struggling to make this work.

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It is unclear to me what you mean by "running down into galleries". It's a drop-down menu. What do you want to happen to it? What solution are you looking for? – jfriend00 Mar 2 '12 at 22:24
FYI, drop-down menus are designed to drop-down over the content below them. It works well and looks good if the drop-down menus have a border and a background color that contrasts with the content below. It is generally not a good idea to make your header taller just to make room for drop-down menus as that is just wasted space 99% of the time. – jfriend00 Mar 2 '12 at 23:00
Posted a update hopefully that helps clear things up. Also what your saying about the adding borders and background color's to the drop down menu is a very valid point and I will work on fixing that. – Keith Mar 2 '12 at 23:53

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I strongly suggest you add a background color to your drop-down menus. That makes them look OK on top of other content. You can do so by adding this CSS (you pick the color you want):

.menu ul ul li {
    background-color: #999;
}

Also, I personally think your drop-downs would look better with the menu items left justified rather than centered which you can do by adding the text-align item to the above CSS:

.menu ul ul li {
    background-color: #999;
    text-align: left;
}

You should also remove all instanced of this in your menu CSS because it is syntactically wrong and isn't doing anything:

background:Transparent;
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I see what your saying now about it looking better when you add background colors to your drop-down menus. I added some color and a little bit of drop shadow to my text which I think makes it look nice, though I'm open to suggestions. I also added a drop shadow to the drop down boxes to give them some depth. Thank you for you help "J" I appreciate you taking the time out of your day to help me with this. – Keith Mar 3 '12 at 1:48

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