problem with text spacing

[patiprana]

I'm having trouble with aligning/spacing (what is the right word?) my texts.

When I have a picture aligned with some text, there is a gap after the first paragraph which I cannot seem to fix.

Example here: http://www.spiritueelmagazine.nl/be/...en-met-kanker/

It does not, however, occur when I use it for example with an Adsense block, but then another problem arises: the text of 'Ads by Google' underneath is very close to the text.

Example can be found here: http://www.spiritueelmagazine.nl/be/liefdesverdriet/

I don't know if this is caused by the same thing or something seperate, but help would be very much appreciated.

CSS of entire content section is below.

(And yes, I had been playing around with the CSS. I though I was finally starting to understand this CSS stuff and could do something without the help of the kind experts here, but alas.)

#content {
	width: 940px;
	margin: 0px auto 0px;
	padding: 10px 0px 0px 0px;
	line-height: 18px;
	}
	
#content h1 {
	color: #741b49;
	font-size: 22px;
	font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;
	font-weight: normal;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	}
	
#content h1 a, #content h1 a:visited  {
	color: #741b49;
	font-size: 22px;
	font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;
	font-weight: normal;
	margin: 0px 0px 5px 0px;
	padding: 10px 0px 0px 0px;
	}

#content h1 a:hover {
	color: #741b49;
	text-decoration: underline;
	}
	
#content h2 {
	background: #FFFFFF;
	color: #e15a00;
	font-size: 15px;
	font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS;
	font-weight: bold;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	padding: 30px 0px 0px 0px;
	}

#content h3 {
	background: #FFFFFF url(images/navnav.jpg);
	color: #84ad45;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-size: 15px;
	font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
	margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	padding: 3px 0px 3px 7px;
	}
	
#content h4 {
	color: #495D5C;
	font-size: 22px;
	font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;
	font-weight: normal;
	margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;
	padding: 10px 0px 0px 0px;
	}
	
#content img.wp-smiley {
	float: none;
	border: none;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}

#content img.wp-wink {
	float: none;
	border: none;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
#contentleft {
	float: left;
	width: 610px;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}

#contentleft a {
color: #0066CC;
	}	

#contentadsense  {
	margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	border-bottom: double #EAEAEA;
	}

#contentleft a img {
	border: none;
	}

blockquote {
	background: #E8E8E8;
	margin: 0px 25px 15px 25px;
	padding: 10px 20px 0px 15px;
	border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD;
	border-right: 1px solid #666666;
	border-left: 1px solid #DDDDDD;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #666666;
	}
	
#content blockquote p {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 15px 0px;
	}
	
.postarea {
	background: #FFFFFF url(images/homepagetop.gif) top no-repeat;
	float: left;
	width: 588px;
	margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	padding: 10px;
	border: 1px solid #DDDDDD;
	}
	
.postarea p {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 20px 0px 0px 0px;
	}
	

.postarea p a,.postarea p a:visited {
   margin: 0px;
   padding: 0px 0px 15px 0px;text-decoration:underline;
   }	

   .postarea ul {
	list-style-type: square;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 15px 0px;
	}
	
.postarea ul li {
	list-style-type: square;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
.postarea ul ul {
	list-style-type: square;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	}
	
.postarea ol {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 15px 0px;
	}
	
.postarea ol li {
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
.breadcrumb {
	font-size: 11px;
	margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 3px 0px;
	border-bottom: double #EAEAEA;
	}
	
#contentwide {
	float: left;
	width: 940px;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	}
	
.postareawide {
	background: #FFFFFF url(images/fullwidthtop.gif) top no-repeat;
	float: left;
	width: 918px;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 10px;
	border: 1px solid #DDDDDD;
	}
	
.postareawide p {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 15px 0px;
	}
	
.postareawide ul {
	list-style-type: square;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 15px 0px;
	}
	
.postareawide ul li {
	list-style-type: square;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
.postareawide ul ul {
	list-style-type: square;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	}
	
.postareawide ol {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 15px 0px;
	}
	
.postareawide ol li {
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
.breadcrumbwide {
	float: left;
	width: 9218px;
	font-size: 11px;
	margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 3px 0px;
	border-bottom: double #EAEAEA;
	}
	
.date {
	width: 590px;
	float: left;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 5px 0px 0px 0px;
	}
	
.dateleft {
	width: 380px;
	float: left;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	}
	
.dateright {
	width: 200px;
	float: right;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	text-align: right;
	}
	
.time {
	background: #FFFFFF url(images/icon_time.gif) no-repeat top left;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
	}
	
.icomment {
	background: #FFFFFF url(images/icon_comments.gif) no-repeat top left;
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px;
	}
	
.tags {
	background: #FFFFFF url(images/icon_tags.gif) no-repeat top left;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px;
	}
	
.category {
	background: #FFFFFF url(images/icon_category.gif) no-repeat top left;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px;
	}
	
.postmeta {
	width: 590px;
	font-size: 12px;
	padding: 5px 0px 0px 0px;
	margin: 0px;
	border-top: double #EAEAEA;
	}
	
.postmeta2 {
	width: 590px;
	font-size: 12px;
	padding: 5px 0px 40px 0px;
	margin: 0px;
	border-top: double #EAEAEA;
	}
	
.archive {
	float: left;
	width: 275px;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px 0px 20px 0px;
	}
	
.adblock {
	background: #FFFFFF url(images/homepagetop.gif) top no-repeat;
	float: left;
	width: 588px;
	margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	padding: 10px;
	border: 1px solid #DDDDDD;
	}
	
.comments {
	background: #FFFFFF url(images/homepagetop.gif) top no-repeat;
	float: left;
	width: 588px;
	margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
	padding: 10px;
	border: 1px solid #DDDDDD;
	}