Can't Add Padding To A Block Element

[mboehler3]

My page is here: http://fliers.greenbranders.com/images/matt/In the header, I want "Mike Smith Homepage" to have like 20 pixels of top padding and 300 pixels of left padding. In my CSS, when I add padding-top:20px and padding-left:300px to my "header" class, the blue box extends 20px on the top and 300px to the right. I just want to position the text inside. Can someone please help me out?

[Ingolme]

Padding adds to the full width of a block. If you want to add padding, you'll have to subtract the same amount from the width and height of the box.