Well, I used max-width for one reason. In Mozilla Firefox, on my contact page, when I push and hold the Submit or Reset button for the form, the box that surrounds my content expands somehow. It was really weird. I am in a program at BCIT (univ. in BC, canada) and I asked my teacher that knows CSS, PHP, XHTML, etc...and it was a bug he had never seen, so I was playing with my code and max-width seems to help fix that problem. My CSS all along didn't display in Explorer thats why I left the max-width in, because I don't think it will really cause a problem in Explorer.