Hello,
i am looking for some advice regarding the use of tables in Atahualpa.

Here is a link to the site at the moment http://propwork.com/hoxton/wordpress/

On the pages About and Contact, i want the text to align with the menu in the left sidebar.

To do this i have used a table with two rows. I have left the top tow blank and set the correct hight to achieve my desired alignment. I suspect that this is a poor way of going about this which is confirmed by the fact that the pages look totally wrong in Safari (i have been using FIREFOX as my main reference)

Really need your help. Can i just do top padding or something? If so how?

p.s: Apologies but the client asked me to remove the WP-credit at the footer. I will be using BFA for all my projects and will include credits in future.

In ATO > Style Posts & Pages > Post Container, the default is:

margin: 0 0 30px 0;

The first 0 is padding from top, so:

margin: 150px 0 30px 0;

would shift the top of the page 150 pixels down, no tables needed. (The actual amount you need is trial and error.) However, if you are using a static page for the front of the site, that photo you are using now will also shift down.