I have been trying to get my layout to valign top but no matter what I do it won't can I get a couple of pointers as its just happening on the newest post http://www.jodee.biz/blogger.html
You need to take a screen shot to tell us which part of the page you're talking about. The dark brown background (looks like a brown border around the yellow area with text but is NOT the funky body wallpaper) is already as far to the top as it will go as there's some sort of blog bar at the top. You already have this: margin:0 auto; padding:8px; Code (markup): Unless you mean the space above JoDee's Blog? Right now the top padding and margins for every wrapper and the h1 with "JoDee's Blog" is zero, so it'd have to be a negative margin to move it up I think, or the line-height of the h1 could be made smaller. The template is made purposely to have a lot of space around the blogger's title. valign is old-fasioned and deprecated. This blog template was written in modern XHTML; valign doesn't work here. Instead, alignment is done with margins and padding. There are some IE6-specific margins listed in the CSS, and so changing top margins may cause problems in that browser. *Edit, just checked in my fake IE (earlier comments after looking in FF), and the page looks the same except for a background white area sticking out the right-hand side (which I think is hidden behind the blog parts in FF). Other than that, the top is not any further down than what looks normal.