CSS and IE crap

[liquidmonkey]

why can't the worlds most used browser be more standards compliant??? very frustrating!

my site works and looks as it should in firefox and even safari (which is a surprise to me) but there are some small errors in IE7 and most likely more errors in older versions. and i thought i was ready to launch my new site design

check it out here...http://www.livelifexplore.com/index2.html

the mainNav bar highlighting does not fill the entire bar as it should when compared to firefox AND the final BLOG tab is made into the 2 rows. I have NO IDEA how either of these is happening but have heard of IE hacks for CSS.

how do i know which hacks to put in my CSS and where to put it?
any help here would be appreciated!

 

[jonny912]

It might have something to do with IE's peculiar box model, so some of your absolute widths/heights are being thrown off just a few pixels by the padding/margin being added incorrectly, which would cause any floating within an absolute container element to mess up. Sorry I can't help more, and the CSS hacks you are mentioning usually don't have much to do with this. What you could try is using a conditional comment to import an "iefix" stylesheet (some CSS crafted to override parts of the main CSS, but it will only be used in IE).
Good luck!