@kdhutto1: About your slider, if you have one long title and another short title, then you will have this issue. We cannot make the height fixed due to responsive design as it need to adjust as per the screen size. So, here what you can do is. For the post that has long title, you can shorten the content through post excerpt box. You can just add the few words only in the excerpt box. This can help you give more control of the text. See this for Excerpt Box: http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/
Same with the menu, we cannot make that as we don’t know how long will be your menu. You can try increasing the padding of the menu. For example, in the following css I have increase the padding left and right to 54px. If you like that then you can add the following css in “Appearance => Theme Options => Custom CSS” box.
#branding ul.menu a {
padding: 0 54px;
}
.
