Search description

[iJon8]

Whenever I search my website on google, it just displays "Header. Home." as the description of the site instead of my meta description or the content of the page. How do I work around this? I used <div> to design the entire page. Here's a sample of my CSS:

body {
background:#FFFFFF url(background.jpg) repeat-y
50% 148px;
}

#header {
position : absolute;
left : 50%;
margin-left: -400px;
top: 0;
width : 800px;
color : #000000;
}

#logo {
position : absolute;
left : 50%;
margin-left: -400px;
top: 161px;
width : 800px;
color : #000000;
}

#topnav {
position : absolute;
left : 50%;
margin-left: -400px;
top: 136px;
width : 800px;
background : #3d6e22;
}
ul#list-nav {
margin:0px;
padding:0;
list-style:none;
width:800px;
font-size:13px;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
}
ul#list-nav li {
display:inline
}
ul#list-nav li a {
text-decoration:none;
padding:5px 0;
width:132px;
background:#3e6e22;
color:#eee;
float:left;
}

ul#list-nav li a {
text-align:center;
border-left:1px solid #fff;
}

ul#list-nav li a:hover {
background:#569b30;
color:#000
}

#leftnav {
position : absolute;
left : 50%;
top: 311px;
width : 150px;
margin-left : -400px;
margin-top : 20px;
color : #000000;

}

[sandman64]

Just out of curiosity, does your website name have the words "head", "header" or "home" in it? Google shows a different description for your site depending on the search term used to find your site. If the EXACT search term is in your meta tags, then your meta tag description will be used. If the EXACT search term is not in your meta tags then Google will start running through your site until the exact search term is used and use that sentence as the description.

Here's a good article that will clear things up:
http://www.searchengineguide.com/jill-whalen/getting-a-great-google-description.php