IE is the bane of every serious web designer. Some things you are going to want to look up are peekaboo bug line-height bug guillotine bug duplicate character bug italics bug double float margin bug three pixel jog escaping floats bug creeping text bug These are addressed at Position is Everything

The steps before this one are necessary. Good clean code is hard enough to debug. Code with bunk markup and presentational hacks just throws more hay on top of your needle. Taking the steps above before asking for help shows that you are at least trying. To drive that point home here is one of [...]