bad coding... only works in IE

no - im fine with that
i wasnt using a generator, i made it with a tutorial and tweaked it a little,
ive been messing around with it for the past half hour but its totally screwed now - it works in FF though but i had to put the navbar at a margin of -45 or something to cancel out something or other.
so now its messy and doesnt work in ie... lol
rewriting it would be great 'cus its rubbish how it is

Is there any particular reason why your image links are defined below the big image in the html?

ohh my tweaking kina worked - there were no errors in validation but 27 warnings and now there are none! (this is in 'style.css') 21 in 'gport.css' but they all read 'background-color and color the same in two contexts'... lol i am monkey poop at proper css

the big image is not defined in the html, the css is meant to rescale the images into thumbnails and then back into their real sizes in the 'viewing frame'

the odd thing is that, despite the fact that the insanely retarded scripting i have gotten from a tutorial or managed to spew out myself is very messy - it actually passes for html strict...lmao

youch - why are the images added in both the html & as a css backround then?

that isn't html strict?! You haven't closed your <br/> and <img/> tags, ever!

i thought <br> was just a page break and wasnt closable??
and img was erm...wtf? W3C said it was valid??
oh yh i always tweak my script and loads of waste is left behind.... i need to delete loads of junk...

this is the 'page of insanity':
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freewebs.com%2Ftestings kills%2Fgport.html
lol

I want to cry! You have to close all your tags, always, silly validator.

All tags have to be closed whatever you do... brs and imgs close without containing anything - so instead of <br></br> - you can just put <br/>. For some reason you can't do the same thing with div elements?

Can I see the tutorial you're working from? I'm sure there must be easier ways than messing up your html and css!

*scratches head* is there a link to the bg in the html? - i can't see it...

i am terribly confuzzled...
thanks for the <br/> tip but im not sure where the tutorial was...
i'm very tempted to start from scratch and make my own gallery thing without a tutorial because it's really pointless unless i fully understand it - ill probably make a simple but effective one that is easy to understand for dumb people like me...lol

Hmm, I can't find the css I was looking at before - you must've been changing things

yeah.. tweaking - i stopped about 15mins ago - just outta interest, is it any better?

Just to clarify - is your problem now that you can't see the title and nav bar in IE?

Haha, infinitely!

i bet this is going straight to the worst websites archive...lol

yeah - this is due to the problem with ie and ff's differing margin settings, i was wondering how best to go about fixing this...

While I'm looking - why do you have 4 different divs opening and closing in the same place?

ukgeoff seems to be crafting the perfect piece of advice as usual - or maybe hes doing what chubbs did