Help, my site looks wrong in IE

[Karinder]

:confused;
I'm busy building my first website with Dreamweaver. Everything's been going
great until I did a browser test - GARGHHHH! (me pulling my hair).
Please go to [url]http://petaline.net/Petaline/index.htm[/url]
In Windows 2000 or XP with IE 5.5 or 6, the blue navbar on the side is way too
huge. It's supposed to fit only around the text. It looks just fine in Opera,
Firefox, and Netscape, and even IE for mac. no go on Windows though.
Any thoughts??
I would love you forever!!!!
Thanks, Karin

[Karinder]

Addendum to message above: Here's the code. someone told me I'll always have
probs with rowspan/colspan in IE, and to take them out and specify height.
Tried that, and everything went to hell. Also,that the blue nav would always go
halfway across the page because I don't have enough in the right cell. If this
is true, what should I put in the right cell?

Any feedback is very welcome!


The table cell and table:
<td width="165" rowspan="2" class="bluebox"><table width="165" border="0"
align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#D4ECFB">
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><a href="fineart.htm">fine art</a> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="papergoods.htm">paper goods</a> </td>
</tr>
<tr>

<td><a href="homegarden.htm">home + garden</a> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="jewelry.htm">jewelry</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="clothing.htm">clothing + accessories </a></td>

</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="babypet.htm">baby + pet </a></td>
</tr>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="artists.htm">artists</a></td>
</tr>

<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr>
<td class="style2"><a href="freestuff.htm">free stuff</a> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.petaline.net/dailybuzz.html">daily buzz</a> </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><a href="salon.htm">networking salon </a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="merchandise.htm">petaline merchandise</a></td>
</tr>
</table></td>

the bluebox style:

.bluebox {
padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px;
background-color: #d4ecfb;
color: #DC9000;
vertical-align: top;
font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif, "Arial Black";
font-size: 15px;
text-align: left;

[Murray *ACE*]

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"Karinder" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Addendum to message above: Here's the code. someone told me I'll always
> have
> probs with rowspan/colspan in IE, and to take them out and specify height.
> Tried that, and everything went to hell. Also,that the blue nav would
> always go
> halfway across the page because I don't have enough in the right cell. If
> this
> is true, what should I put in the right cell?
>
> Any feedback is very welcome!
>
>
> The table cell and table:
> <td width="165" rowspan="2" class="bluebox"><table width="165" border="0"
> align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#D4ECFB">
> <tr>
> <td>&nbsp;</td>
> </tr>
>
> <tr>
> <td><a href="fineart.htm">fine art</a> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td><a href="papergoods.htm">paper goods</a> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
>
> <td><a href="homegarden.htm">home + garden</a> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td><a href="jewelry.htm">jewelry</a></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td><a href="clothing.htm">clothing + accessories </a></td>
>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td><a href="babypet.htm">baby + pet </a></td>
> </tr>
> <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
> <tr>
> <td><a href="artists.htm">artists</a></td>
> </tr>
>
> <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
> <tr>
> <td class="style2"><a href="freestuff.htm">free stuff</a> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td><a href="http://www.petaline.net/dailybuzz.html">daily buzz</a> </td>
> </tr>
>
> <tr>
> <td><a href="salon.htm">networking salon </a></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td><a href="merchandise.htm">petaline merchandise</a></td>
> </tr>
> </table></td>
>
> the bluebox style:
>
> .bluebox {
> padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px;
> background-color: #d4ecfb;
> color: #DC9000;
> vertical-align: top;
> font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif, "Arial Black";
> font-size: 15px;
> text-align: left;
>

[Karinder]

Sure: it's [url]http://petaline.net/Petaline/index.htm[/url]

[Murray *ACE*]

You are a victim of DW's Layout Mode. It's your table structure that's
doing this. Please read this -

[url]http://apptools.com/rants/spans.php[/url]

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"Karinder" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:eal9ke$l2f$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Sure: it's [url]http://petaline.net/Petaline/index.htm[/url]
>
>

[Karinder]

Thanks so much for the tip! I'm bookmarking these tutorials. Seems to me another reason I should learn how to do layout with CSS sooner rather than later.

[Murray *ACE*]

Yep. Here are more for you -

[url]http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/qdmacfly/index.htm[/url]
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/dreamweaver/css.html[/url]
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/tableless_layout_dw8.html[/url]
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/css_concepts.html[/url]


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"Karinder" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks so much for the tip! I'm bookmarking these tutorials. Seems to me
> another reason I should learn how to do layout with CSS sooner rather than
> later.