link text doesn't appear in ie

[ds67]

Hello to all:

Sorry if this question has been answered before, but I have no idea what I would search for to view past inquiries. Anyway, Viewing in FF, the following page looks great! However, in IE, the text for the links do not appear. Also, the background (which is a .jpg) does not connect to my banner in IE. There is a fine white line between the two. How can I remedy this?

http://www.netsitemaker.com/other.html


Oh, I've heard about .table, .tr, .body, etc. is actually better to use in coding and works faster with browsers. Is this correct and where can I go to read about how to use coding in this manner.

Thanks so much...

[Kor]

Your page is probably treated in "quirk mode" by IE, be cause you don't have, but you must have a Doctype for your page

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp

You need probably a HTML tranditional DTD

And, as long as you use CSS to set the links' behavior, the HTML attributes link, vlink, alink are useless. In fact try to use only CSS in order to handle the page presentation.