The idea here is to have the <a> elements as blocks, set to specific sizes, then float the <li> elements left to sit everything on the one line.
HOWEVER, you have a nesting problem within your menu markup - the opening <a> tags should be BEFORE the href declaration. There is also no need for an inactive class, nor a separate holding div for the ul.
Setting widths and margins on the body element is not a good method to centre a layout - use a wrapper div instead. Whilst an <img> within the first <a> link displays the logo graphic ok, it means nothing semantically - the use of a styled <h1> header means more here.
Unless you intend to use specific features of xml (which has little support), then as per another post on these forums, a html 4.01 strict doctype and utf-8 encoding is more appropriate for new sites.
Taking all this together, I came up with this html : <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Knapp Group</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<h1><a href="index.php">Knapp Group</a></h1>
<!-- Links -->
<ul id="navbar">
<li><a href="index.php" class="activelink">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="trackrecord.php">Track Record</a></li>
<li><a href="inventory.php">Inventory</a></li>
<li><a href="faq.php">FAQ</a></li>
<li><a href="contactus.php">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
<!-- Footer -->
</div>
</body>
</html>
and this css : /* CSS Document for Knapp Project */
/* Basic Styling */
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
a {
color: #666666;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
border: none;
}
#wrapper {
width: 800px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
h1 a {
display: block;
height: 61px;
background-image: url(images/titlepic.gif);
font-size: 1px;
text-indent: -1000px;
}
#navbar {
overflow: hidden;
margin: 1px 0 0;
}
#navbar li {
list-style: none;
float: left;
}
#navbar a {
display: block;
width: 8em;
color: #666666;
font-size: 16px;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #EEEEEE;
border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
text-align: center;
}
#navbar .activelink, #navbar a:hover {
color: #333333;
font-weight: bold;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
}
Cheers
Graeme