Hi thanks for the advice.....the logo url is now working.. but he borders are still not showing...there was spacing in the coding but after pasting it it must have disappeared??
And the footer is still positioning itself in the container....I didnt alter the coding for this as I think it should work...the bottom div tag is for the body div tags.

Heres the css for the borders now:
#subheader
{
background:black;
height:30px;
border-left:3px thin red;/*borders not working*/
border-bottom:3px thin red;
border-right:3px thin red;
}

I have also tried using the bottom attribute in the footer tag:
#footer/*placing itself it main container*/
{
margin-top:15px;
background:black;
height:25px;
margin-bottom:15px;
bottom:10px;
}
But still no joy