Hi, i am adapting a freeware css layout i found and i am having trouble with the site in IE, it looks just fine in firefox and safari but it's acting like there is still a table or layer on the bottom left half of the site, i can't figure out what's going on with it, anyone know? here is the coding...the site is located at www.aestheticmedialab.com/buyersguide <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="Author" content="Author" /> <meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" /> <meta name="Description" content="Wyoming's direct mailed shopper, the easiest place to sell your cars, trucks, farm & ranch equipment, houses, horses, livestock, furniture, and more. Mini Paper / Buyer's Guide a classified publication covering the entire Big Horn Basin of Northwest Wyoming" /> <meta name="Keywords" content="Mini Paper, Buyer's Guide, Cody, Wyoming, Publication, classified, classifieds" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="images/style.css" /> <title>Buyer's Guide - Mini Paper</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .style3 {font-size: 18pt} .style4 { font-size: 80%; font-style: italic; } --> </style> </head> <body> <div id="bg"> <div id="sadrzaj"> <div id="zaglavlje"> <div id="title"> <div align="left"><img src="images/header.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="62" vspace="0" /></div> </div> <br /> </div> <div id="navigacija"> <ul> <li><a href="index.html">home</a></li> <li><a href="submit.html">submit classified </a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">contact</a></li> <li><a href="about.html">about us </a></li> <li><a href="links.html">links</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="pic"> <h2>COVERING THE ENTIRE<br /> <span class="style3">BIG HORN BASIN</span><br /> OF NORTHWEST WYOMING!</h2> <p> </p> </div> <div class="desna_rubrika"> <h3 align="center">Place your ad online</h3> <p align="center"><a href="submit.html">Place your ad in over 22,000 homes</a></p> <p align="center"><a href="submit.html">Sell your goods quickly</a></p> <p align="center"><a href="submit.html">Save a trip to Cody</a></p> <h3 align="center">Mail your ad to us</h3> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=internal&addtohistory=& ;latitude=ykXyaikWSiuFJmcSE7ClGg==&longitude=6 Lk9Ir4dvFzwTwvKJheCEw==&name=Mini%20Paper%20Bu yers%20Guide&country=US&address=1826%20She ridan%20Ave&city=Cody&state=WY&zipcode =82414&phone=307-587-5989&spurl=0&&q=Buyer%27s%20Guide& qc=Advertising-Newspaper" target="_blank">BUYER'S GUIDE</a>1826 Sheridan Ave.<br /> Cody, WY 82414 U.S.A. <br /> 307-587-5989<br /> <a href="mailto:minipaper@wtp.net">minipaper@wtp.net< /a></p> <h3 align="center">Advertising Rates </h3> <p align="center">20 Words for 1 Issue: $ 7.00<br /> for 3 Issues: $14.00<br /> Additional Words: .20¢ each<br /> Bold Type: add $4.00<br /> Border: $ 4.00<br /> Bold and Border: $6.00<br /> <span class="style4">*Deadline for placing ads is every Wednesday at 5:00 PM </span></p> </div> <div class="lijeva_rubrika"> <h3>ADVERTISE WITH US! </h3> <p>Every week, The Buyer's Guide reaches over 22,000 homes all across the Big Horn Basin all across Northwest Wyoming. Don't you think that it is about time people see your ad? We can help you sell your goods fast. Give us a call today! <br /> </p> <h3>BUSINESS DIRECTORY <br /> </h3> <table width="300" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" bgcolor="#CDE1F9" id="downbox"> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.garvinmotors.com" target="_blank"><img src="images/ad_garvin.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="75" /></a></td> <td><a href="mailto:minipaper@wtp.net"><img src="images/ad_this.gif" alt="" width="150" height="75" /></a></td> <td><a href="mailto:minipaper@wtp.net"><img src="images/ad_this.gif" alt="" width="150" height="75" /></a></td> </tr> </table> <p><br /> </p> </div> <div id="footer"> <div align="center">Copyright © 2007 <a href="mailto:mini@tctwest.net">Mini Paper / Buyer's Guide</a> > Designed by <a href="http://www.aestheticmedialab.com" target="_blank">Aesthetic Media Lab </a></div> </div> </div> </div> <a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c27.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=2699354&java=0&secu rity=e9f0cc6b&invisible=0" alt="website metrics" border="0"></a> </body> </html>
For starters, try changing the DOCTYPE declaration XHTML Strict to XHTML Transitional. If you don't want to do that, rip out the deprecated HTML attributes (like align="") and style the page from your stylesheet instead.