Maybe I'm just getting old & miserable, but nothin' frosts my pop-tart faster than visiting a web page with the browser of my choice and having that web page not deliver the content as the designer/writer intended...
See Screenshot:
This is how the page looks in Firefox, and probably Mozilla, Opera, SeaMonkey (etc. "the compliant browsers") :) Looks GREAT in IE, though... :o
I went through and in about 5-minutes of tweaking, came up with this, which display virtually the same in Firefox as IE6. -Don't know about IE7, -don't have it / don't want it. :o
Parts I added, are bolded. (May/may not actually be needed)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.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"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.hannahhenry.org/archer/ar-styles.css" type="text/css" media="screen"/>
<title>Archer's Pilates & Massage</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {font-size: 90%; line-height:1.3em; margin:14px 0 2px 0; padding-bottom:20px;}
#footer {padding-top:25px; text-align:center;}
#footer p {text-align:center; height:25px;}
#footer a {color:black; font-weight:bold; line-height:1.2em;}
#footer a:hover {color:red; border-bottom:2px solid blue;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="pagecontainer" style="position:relative; height:100%;">
<div id="content">
<div id="navbar-vert" style="position:relative; top:35px; float:left;">home<br/><a href="private.html">private pilates</a><br/>
<a href="massage.html">massage</a><br/>
<a href="classes.html">classes</a><br/>
<a href="aboutpilates.html">about Pilates</a><br/>
<a href="testimonials.html"></a><br/>
</div>
<div id="text-box" style="width:535px; margin-top:15px;">
<img src="http://www.hannahhenry.org/archer/archer_images/toephoto-bw.jpg" alt="pilates instruction" style="width:222px; height:241px; margin:6px 0 6px 15px; float:right;" />
<p>Whether in small classes or private sessions, Archer's Pilates and Massage studio maintains a sincere emphasis on individual attention. </p>
<p> The primary focus of the Pilates exercises is on the abdominal "core" as the fulcrum of all the body's movement. By first establishing alignment of the body using the breath, visualization and other tools, the exercises flow from a place of practicality and ease.
</p>
<p>Some of the results you can expect to attain with the strengthening of the core:</p>
<ul style="list-style-type:none;">
<li title="Freedom from chronic pain">- Freedom from chronic pain</li>
<li title="Height gain">- Height gain</li>
<li title="Improved coordination">- Improved coordination</li>
<li title="Greater appreciation and results from other physical activities">- Greater appreciation and results from other physical activities</li>
<li title="An increased sense of mental focus">- An increased sense of mental focus</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div title="497 Walnut St. Suite E, Napa, CA 94558 p: 707.253.9512" id="footer" style="position:relative; width:730px; margin:0 auto;">
<p>497 Walnut St. Suite E, Napa, CA 94558 p: 707.253.9512 <a title="Sends E-mail to: archer@pilatesinnapa.com" href="mailto:payon01@sbcglobal.net">archer@pilatesinnapa.com</a></p>
</div>
</body>
</html> Note that I changed that bottom thing into an <ul>. I would recommend doing the same for the navigation list ("lists" of items, belong in an "unordered list"..) :)
I also fixed your e-mail, which on-hover, became invisible against the background.
There is alot of code in there that is un-necessary (like that two hundred and twenty-two by something "spacer.gif"... -although *I* have T1, maybe-75% of the USA still uses dial-up at 56K, and removing this alone saves them 5 or 6-seconds of download-wait).
I suspect that your 'background image' is exactly that... a 700-something px by 700-something px image? -I'd slice it up and use the pertinant parts (the wheat grains), and 'background-color:x' the rest, with 'curvy-corner images' positioned in the four cardinal corners. Knock-off another 8-10 seconds of download-wait for dial-up users right there again...:)