html code help please

[RyanMc]

my normal website is sitting to the left, and because i have a java menu i can't shift that if i centralise the site.
I'm going to widen the site so it fit's screens better.
instead of have the top banner made up of 6 or 7 images, i've combined them into one to make things easier by this has altered the images below the banner creating a gap and i'm not sure on the code to get rid of this gap.

i've created a duplicate homepage to play around with. Any help on the coding is appreciated, thanks.

you will see on the following page what i mean by the images being out of place, there are a few.
corproaterunning dot CO dot UK /index1 dot html

[Mike]

without wanting to sound unhelpful, Id consider switching to a css based layout as you will find this kind of thing much easier.

Tables can be a pig to get right if you change image slices around

[RyanMc]

i did it in an online wizard, i thought i'd check here first.
i was thinking of just redoing it in dreamweaver on a css like u say..but i need to drum up some motivation to spend an evening doing it!

[john98]

i did it in an online wizard, i thought i'd check here first.
i was thinking of just redoing it in dreamweaver on a css like u say..but i need to drum up some motivation to spend an evening doing it!

It would be good if you redo it using css, like Mike said.

[RyanMc]

ok i'm finally getting somewhere with this. all looks good in firefox2 (it won't let me update to 3, the site is not working so if anyone has a link to the download that would be great)
anyway, this is what i have so far- done in tables i know, but i'm not knowledgable enough for css
corporaterunning dot co dot uk/index1 dot html

the problem i'm having is the background image doesn't appear in IE. i read it's somthing to do with me having merged cells before i put the image in. can anyone tell from the source code what the problem is?

the file it is concerning is: /img/base/ba58.gif

and thank you for the design offer, i think my logo is fine for now

[RyanMc]

and this is the help link i found about the problem, but i can't understand how i need to edit my html code
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/view...nalId=tn_14012

[projectword]

Hey,
I am not insulting your current design but it seems you Java menu is coursing too many problems, also people are not too fond of it in your feedback post.
I think you should concentrate on a simple horizontal nav menu with a nice css rollover.
Having the design stretch 100% then your content maybe at 800px width. You can display sub links on the page after they have clicked them, make a feature of them by accompanying them with images.
I knocked up a quick screenshot, I think this style and method would be a lot easier and maybe more affective.

www.projectword.co.uk/images/Website_Running.gif

[john98]

Ryan, you can download fire fox 3.0 at:
mozilladotcom/en-US/firefox/alldothtml

[john98]

Ryan, i am sorry if i missed out something. I checked corporate running in firefox and IE. Its looks all the same!??!

[RyanMc]

i'm constantly updating the site. i've switched to a slightly different design now based on css as it's easier to work with

old site is corporaterunning.co.uk/index1a.html and the new is on the main domain