Ah crap, need help diagnosing this IE 7 CSS behavior

Can someone please help diagnose what the problem is with my display? It works fine in Chrome and IE8..but fails somewhat in IE7. My tagline in wordpress fails to appear and the underlines for the pages aren't where they should be in the header nav..any ideas?

www.womensplatformshoes.org

 

Wild guess??? None of your tags are opened or closed properly - remember you have to close them in the reverse order you opened them.

<center><h1>



<a href="http://www.womensplatformshoes.org/">

<font size="5" face="Tahoma, Sans-Serif" color="#ffff00">

Womens Platform Shoes</a>   </font></h1><br/>


<font size="4">
		<div class="description"><center>Great Discount Sales and Information</font></center></div>
	</div>
</div></center>

Code (markup):

See you open A, then FONT, then you incorrectly close FONT and the A in the wrong order. You also have a FONT tag wrapping a DIV - which you cannot actually do, and the closes for your CENTER tags are also incorrect. NOT that the FONT or CENTER tags have ANY place in modern markup.

Old school fixing while retaining your elements:

<h1>
	<center>
		<a href="http://www.womensplatformshoes.org/">
			<font size="5" face="Tahoma, Sans-Serif" color="#ffff00">
				Womens Platform Shoes
			</font>
		</a>
	</center>
</h1><br/>

<div class="description">
	<center>
		<font size="4">
			Great Discount Sales and Information
		</font>
	</center>
</div>

Code (markup):

Notice how my putting each on it's own line and indenting them lets me make sure they open/close in the correct order?

Of course, if I wrote that section it would probably be coded thus:

<h1>
	<a href="http://www.womensplatformshoes.org/">
		Womens Platform Shoes
	</a>
	<span>-</span>
	<small>
		Great Discount Sales and Information
	</small>
</h1>

Code (markup):

With everything else going on there applied from the stylesheet.

The whole page is filled with excess/unneccessary/outdated markup like that - as I've said to a great many people on a great many forums, there is more of 1997 to that page than 2009.

Though that's to be expected when the majority of wordpress templates, including the default one, have nothing even RESEMBLING modern coding techniques.