How to move the header and content of wordpress site down

Thanks for your advice.

I've removed the menu in the header of my blog - as I don't want to display the blog's menu in the blog's font etc.

What I am trying to do is move the overall position of the blog down a little so that more of the background image is seen above at the top. Then, somehow, I will incorporate the menu I'm using in the rest of my site at the top of the blog.

Once I get this accomplished I just need to incorporate the footer from my main site into my blog and I'll have a nicely integrated blog that matches perfectly in with the rest of my site.

Sounds easy but to a complete non-techy WP appears to be a complete mystery.

Robert

ltrain_riders,

your advice helped tremendously, thank you.

However I still have a problem in that I can't seem to center my WP page.

I have this piece of code in my style.css

#page {
margin: 75px 2em auto;
max-width: 1000px;
padding: 10px 10px 0 10px;
position:absolute;
left:10%;
}

When I set left to 50% it doesn't center it either?

Also, I placed the menu at the very top of each page template for the site. I found placing a menu inside the page meant that the menu didn't have any background. With the menu placed outside of the WP page, the menu gets the bg image.

And, I will also need a way to figure out how to center the menu. Here's the code in the css for the menu parts:

.menuContainer
{
max-width: 1000px;
padding: 10px 10px 0 10px;
margin-left:200px;
}


.topNaviagationLink
{
text-align:center;
position:relative;
margin-top:30px;
font-size:22px;
margin-left:-10px;
width:121px;
height: 35px;
line-height: 35px;
float:left;
color:#CEEAEE;
font-family:"Adobe Garamond Pro Bold", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
}


.topNaviagationLink a
{
text-decoration:none;
color:#CDE2FC;
}

.topNaviagationLink a:hover
{
text-align:center;
border-bottom:none;
color:#000000;
display: block;
width:121px;
height: 35px;
line-height: 35px;
background-image:url(http://www.marriagerescuecentral.com/images/tab.png);
}


I would appreciate your help on this if you have time - or anyone else's if they're reading this.

Thanks again,

Robert