website errors...gurus please help...

[R_Metzel]

I am trying to design just a quick plain site until I hire a web designer....I have only made the home page, but still need to edit content, ect.....I made the page via dreamweaver 8, loaded onto the server for now. Looks fine in Firefox, doesn't look right in IE6-7. W3C validates the CSS and html as fine. So why doesn't it look right in IE? I have never attempted to do a website, so if someone that knows what they are doing can take a look and tell me why.....?
www.blacktiefoto.com (http://www.blacktiefoto.com)

Thanks for any input you can give
-Rob-

2 Screen shots to show what its doing....

1. Site in Firefox
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2019/2116464350_044412b0b7_o.gif

2. Site in IE 7
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2237/2116464404_8038a808c5_o.gif

[sevillafox]

From what I was told, it's just the way things go. My site is the same way. It doesn't look bad in IE-just bigger. Yours looks like the same thing is happening.

Where in the badger state are you from?

[HectorsGTI]

Young grasshopper there are many things you must learn.

First lesson: Microsoft is satan and he will eat your soul. They think programming a web browser to ignore standards and making their own proprietary ones is cool. Everyone else thinks it is evil. It is evil.

Second Lesson: Never let a machine write your code. Learn HTML, Learn PHP, Learn CSS. Do not rely on programs to create your vision of a website. Because machines have no vision. OR if you don't have the time or patience hire a professional, this may be the only way to remain sane.

Last Lesson: What you design today will be obsolete in 6 - 12 months. As technology evolves what you create becomes obsolete and will not function properly in future browsers. So all that time you spent learning and creating is now worthless and you must spend even more time learning and creating if you want to stay up to date.

You can tame the internets to bend to your will, but you must be one with teh l33t. Good luck.

[R_Metzel]

Thanks guys.....I dont have time, or really a want to learn html....this is just so I have something until I can afford a decent web designer. So if it looks bad in some browsers....to bad. Its better then nothing right now.

Tiffany, I live in wisconsin rapids.

[sevillafox]

I'm a native of Phillips (norhern WI) so I was just curious. I used to know a few Rapids guys. I went to my senior prom with one and the other was majorly head over heels for my best friend. I also had a prof at college who used to teach in Rapids. BTW, I don't think your site looks bad in IE. It's just different that firefox. But, no one would notice it wasn't what you had planned unless they looked in both browsers.

[SlowBlink]

Off hand I'd say change you're page layout to percentages rather than pixel values.

[Zepher]

Did you fix it? it looks the same on my PC in Firefox and IE7.

[kevin_c]

Looks fine on mine as well now :-)

[R_Metzel]

I turned the body into a gif. Thats the only way it keeps the body size right. the other pages still dont sit right. I even tried adding an image placeholder set to top of the table for the header...nothing I have tried will keep the pages correct other then turning the body into a picture. I would rather not have to do that, as it will become a pain in the butt to edit text. I would have to make a new gif every time.